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| We take the extrapolations/over interpretations with a pinch of salt , there can be quite a variety for each case at any one time ,and bigger changes within a generation .It is what we expect from archaeos but it is not their most important contribution . The Stonehenge Archer is a good example ,we no longer believe that the presence of a bracer is an indication of an archer . Mark's dissent was with the orthodoxy of previous historians and the evidence proving Britain wasn't aceramic in the post Roman period was the presence of pre Roman coarse ware production in eastern Yorkshire that was still producing pottery in the post Roman 5th C "It is scarcely credible that structural phases 3 - 7, which involve major and (in the case of Phase 4) massive structural alterations, and must post-date AD 388, can be compressed into a chronology which sees all of this activity as having taken place before c.AD 420. (This assertion is further reinforced if account is taken of the single Theodosian coin recorded as having come from the make-up deposit of structural Phase 1). It is infinitely more likely that the chronology of the structural sequence extends at least to c.AD 450, and very probably beyond." Looting and scavenging for pots in earlier monuments may have taken place ,despite the lack of evidence ,but more certain activity, is that like the BA inhabitants who re-used earlier neolithic monuments ,the Anglo Saxons did the same and were actually depositing pottery , as well as human and animal remains in the earlier monuments . Reply | with quote |  25th November 2015ce 13:02 In reply to: Re: Digging up ancient graves looking for pots to cook in... (Robot Emperor) |
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