Eternal,

I think I hear you about the time needing to be right to "have the confidence to go for it." But with that said, what you wrote in your last posting - especially paras. 2-4 - looks to me like a good first draft of an introduction to what you have discovered.

It would be sad to think that your experience, impressions and thoughts did not, in one form or another, help younger people find their way into these sorts of situations. The other side of it is the process of weaving it all into a coherent picture. Maybe you already have a clear approach, but certainly in my work, it is only when I try to analyse a place in written words that the gaps and ambiguities become clear, so it comes clearer what needs to be researched.

I wonder if you know the work of Maximilian Baldia on prehistoric roads and trackways in Europe? If not, there is an important article by him posted at: <www.comp-archaeology.org/SAA_1998_Roads.htm> It is cutting edge stuff and might link up with what you have been talking about.

But you are surely right to want to think it through first. It's just that you seem to have a lot to share about an important side of prehistory - communication routes - that is often overlooked within a focus on particular sites.

Treeman