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Stonehenge Car Park Post Holes

stonehenge mesolithic post holes

smallblueplanet S
smallblueplanet Dec 27, 2004 14:36:04
Replying to BrigantesNation

I'm not sure that I follow what you mean.....

If you mean that the reports are substandard I wouldn't agree. They are interim and therefore by their nature appear piecemeal at present.

The website is providing provisional information as and when specialist reports are completed. There does not appear to be any problem with the quality of the content. Much of it is technical in nature and as provisional data it cannot, by definition, contain all of the information. I too look forward to reading the completed reports.

If on the other hand you mean how do I make sense of the intervention reports (which are not always the most accessible of documents to non-specialists). It is the result of 23 years of research as a field-archaeologist and researcher whose specialist field is lithics and prehistoric landscape archaeology:-)

B BrigantesNation
BrigantesNation Dec 27, 2004 15:00:37
Replying to smallblueplanet

The website only has fragmentory details of some of the archaeology that has been done. As such it is incredibly dificult to uderstand the site. For example, there were I think five pit alignments found on the site, I'd like to know where these were, how long they were etc.

There is a bit mentioned of one pit alignment. Breaing in mind many of these were excavated more than 5 years ago it seems odd that they are not yet fully documented whilst some very recent finds, such as the square barrows do get published.

Thus we have a brief mention of some Mesolithic artefacts but not the ability to locate the pit that they came from or the exact context they came from.

Most interesting to me, is that most of the information was published only after our campaign was started and particularly after some of these features were highlighted online.

As you know, partial information is no information and for excavations done almost ten years ago I'd have liked a much fuller picture.

But then I seriously doubt that the primary purpose of this website is to provide a clear picture of all archaeology dicovered on the site.

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