8th December 2014, 01:50 PM
P Prentice Wrote:a greater incidence on upslopes might well be expected in a landscape without a couple millennia of amphopomorphous drainage.
yep or on stilts
.But depends on what your site is..........some sites seem deliberately sited lower down closer to water/boggy ground
P Prentice Wrote:given the likely corolory with early clearance episodes it is also worth considering how sites might show us the roads through the wildwood and the nexus of communication?
Have to say I like this idea, given the wobliness of early trackways/boundaries but tracking too far back into the wild wood has problems.....I feel that many (not you PP) that theorise about the wildwood and roads/routes through it have never stepped into a wildwood or have been hunting.
Except for the exceptions of passes through terrain.......or possibly long-distance routes that need to be marked to traverse, I'd assume that people that lived in the wildwood would traverse the network of game trails and/or the network of rivers?
Though over time I guess some of these may become more 'permenant' in the landscape through use if they are a particularly useful route.