Archaeologist Joe Price with his "phenomenal" first day findImage: Cotswold Archaeology
Posted on 06/02/2022 7:13:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The time team had barely begun day one at the South Cerney site near Cirencester when a Bronze Age spearhead was uncovered in a condition they called pristine...
The spear made point, there was more. Work on the site of a planned new £200,000 wildlife habitat scheme at a Thames Water sewage works has uncovered and identified finds and features from a range of periods including six Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age timber-posted roundhouses, two Roman trackways, and a mix of pottery and animal bone.
The spearhead was found in a shallow pit surrounded by a circle of stakeholes. Athough there is no verifiable purpose for these, they would likely have formed an above-ground structure, possibly acting as a marker for the pit...
Excavations in the wider area, mainly completed prior to gravel extraction at Shorncote Quarry, to the south of the wetlands site, have identified continuous and extensive human activity, from the Neolithic through to the Roman period – some 4,000 years. During those excavations, extensive Bronze age settlement – in the form of timber posted structures – was seen throughout the area. A Romano-British farmstead was also discovered, along with associated field boundaries and agricultural activity.
(Excerpt) Read more at gloucestershirelive.co.uk ...
Archaeologist Joe Price with his "phenomenal" first day findImage: Cotswold Archaeology
Amazing. As somebody wrote yesterday, “You can’t sink a spade in England without finding ancient relics.”
Were “Roman trackways” roads? The Wiki entry “Ancient Trackways” redirects to “Historic roads and trails.”
Bttt
Is this the Brits’ famed sense of dry humor?
I’d guess that a trackway was a trading path.
Yeah, and a lot of the ceramic artifacts probably go unrecognized — broken or unbroken roof tiles, chunks of pottery, those flat floor shims sold for building hypercausts, etc. And tessarae, the individual stones used for mosaics, are probably hurting bare feet in the summer grass.
Some of the sections of some of the Roman roads subsumed existing routes, but usually the Romans were heading in a specific direction and didn’t pay any mind to the geographical barriers, so those long straight roads tend to be mostly or entirely Roman.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1247442/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3383014/posts
https://freerepublic.com/tag/romanroads/index
I’ve tried watching the new Time Team shows on YouTube, and they are really boring. The presenter sounds like he is trying too hard to make everything seem important.
I once went to Israel about thirty years ago. While talking to a native, the topic of archeology came up. He said, Israel has been occupied by humans for untold years. It was almost impossible to find an area in Israel that did not have significant archeological artifacts. And while walking around, his statement seemed very true. For instance, I was in a market and the back wall of some merchant stands was a stone wall. What made the wall interesting was that it was made in three different styles. The inference being that that wall had been made many hundreds of years ago and had been repaired several times over the years.
An excerpt about Bronze Age combat by swordmaster Mike Loades. Taken from the documentary Helen of Troy, by Bettany Hughes.Mike Loades Bronze Age Spear Fighting | SubRosaFlorens
(that vid is from “8 years ago” — YT has in its lame-assed way suddenly stopped including dates, or perhaps just older dates)
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