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thesweetcheat wrote: Sanctuary wrote: The problem is TSC that most don't appear to have been heavily mounded or ditched and consequently just animal movements have flattened a great many over the years making it now difficult to distinquish between the two, plus the plough on occasions as well I suppose. 4,000 years is a long time for a not so prominent feature to be laid to waste! Yep, that seems pretty likely doesn't it? There's plenty of bowl barrows that are being spread and flattened to little more than soil-marks, so a delicate little earthen bank isn't going to stand much chance! Actually, on the subject of ring ditches, presumably when you dig your ditch the upcast becomes the circular bank. So, do ring ditches have the bank on the inside (like a henge) or on the outside (like a stock enclosure)? Or does it vary? Ring ditches are usually associated with houses where the ditch is a result of rain rather than being dug .One may have just been discoveed in a scottish stone circle . Great advances in the past decade in relation to barrows and ditches ,due to more interest in tha actual construction /sequence rather than the contents . Reply | with quote |  24th August 2012ce 22:47 In reply to: Re: Lodge Park Long Barrow (thesweetcheat) |
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