2nd December 2014, 01:52 PM
P Prentice Wrote:the line is the e/w split though i am not sure why you have stuff very much north of it unless you didnt report it yet?
The three Anglo Saxon sites are reported on (assessment stage). I am writing the publication this and next year. Unfortunately in that area they don't appear on the HER until published
Also noted from the Chadwick pamphlet (cheers for the ref) that West Hesslerton doesn't seem to be on the map.
P Prentice Wrote:the areas of low density ia pottery are not in low density ia settlment areas: people were there but with pot
this is the model of the future - just needs tweeking
Indeed. Thats exactly what I was talking about. Durham is a case in point. There are loads of cropmark 'IA/RB' settlements on the HER, many not excavated, a few have just a couple of trenches dug. Hardly any of the older sites comprise an excavation of the total settlement and surrounds. so of course these sites will show up as IA sites with no pottery.
This myth of a north with no IA pottery has been difficult to get out of peoples heads.
There is a case for some sites not having pottery, especially the earlier ones (I think) and those sites up on the moors, though these do not seem to be the norm for settlements that were occupied during the Iron Age, but may appear to be the norm based on the HER.
Of the more recently excavated IA/RB sites that have moderate to large assemblages of pot on them few have been fully excavated.