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Re: Digging up ancient graves looking for pots to cook in...
Nov 24, 2015, 15:58
“we are still largely ignorant of the day-to-day lives of those in Roman Britain.”
Part of the problem of the peasant experience being almost silent until the 18th C .


“If evidence of an aceramic Post-Roman Britain was anything more than informed extrapolation? Obvious to me now (post in haste etc) that we can never expect anything else from archaeology. “

Without the written record , which can be mistaken or wilfully inaccurate (victors etc ) archaeology is often the only recourse we have for retrieving info . Often the archaeological evidence is contrary to the earlier written record .
When there are extrapolations /over-interpretations , they are due to individuals not the discipline , in this case the dissenting voice ,complete with evidence ,was also an archaeologist.
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