The Herit Age

[Dinosaur]

what you are describing appears to be totally at odds with what we do know about cursus construction and the oval pit alignment technique sounds more like you would expect in a causewayed enclosure -you presumably know about the pit cursuses in lowland Scotland?. add this to the possibility that you are in one of Roy's cult centres then this is hugely important - surely?

But still not sure what would be gained by digging 100% - the individual bits are staggering uninteresting in themselves, and the finds assemblage from last 3 weeks comes to a total of an undiagnostic tiny bit of flint debitage and 2 scraps of burnt clay. Since there's no stratigraphic relationships surviving between the individual components courtesy of Piers the Ploughman I rather doubt we'll ever get beyond 'ooh, that's pretty'...it only becomes interesting when viewed as an overall plan (which hardly requires 100% excavation, just a quick clean-up after machining and some high-level piccies and planning) :face-stir:

oh, and some scientific dates would be nice

[P Prentice]

But still not sure what would be gained by digging 100% - the individual bits are staggering uninteresting in themselves, and the finds assemblage from last 3 weeks comes to a total of an undiagnostic tiny bit of flint debitage and 2 scraps of burnt clay. Since there's no stratigraphic relationships surviving between the individual components courtesy of Piers the Ploughman I rather doubt we'll ever get beyond 'ooh, that's pretty'...it only becomes interesting when viewed as an overall plan (which hardly requires 100% excavation, just a quick clean-up after machining and some high-level piccies and planning)

you keep saying that you havent found anything but you have yet to say how much you have dug? one could easily expect to find nothing in a section across a causewayed enclosure segment but nobody in their right mind would contest you shouldn't dig it all out. if you are sampling 1% of a cursus ditch and find nothing that can hardly be taken as representative - even if nobody else has yet found anything more on any other cursus.
and 2 scraps of burnt clay?? -

[Dinosaur]

what you are describing appears to be totally at odds with what we do know about cursus construction and the oval pit alignment technique sounds more like you would expect in a causewayed enclosure -you presumably know about the pit cursuses in lowland Scotland?. add this to the possibility that you are in one of Roy's cult centres then this is hugely important - surely?

Oh, and sucking eggs probably does figure somewhere on my list of accomplishments.....}

[P Prentice]

Oh, and sucking eggs probably does figure somewhere on my list of accomplishments.....}

ok grandma

[Kajemby]

?Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ?
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? Voltaire

[P Prentice]

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ”
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— Voltaire

excellent friday response to this well and truely hijacked thread

i prefer Voltaire's 'he must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked'

and Einsteins 'a man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be'

[Jack]

excellent friday response to this well and truely hijacked thread...........

Hijacked in what way?

I saw no gun-toting criminals, no hostages, heard no demands

[P Prentice]

Hijacked in what way?

I saw no gun-toting criminals, no hostages, heard no demands

its the 21st century jack - the baddies dont ware masks and creep around on tippy toes, we just talk s**t and pretend importance

[Jack]

................. we just talk s**t and pretend importance

'nuff said (grin):face-stir:

[P Prentice]

'wherever i climb i am followed by a dog called Ego' - Nietzsche