By Julian Thomas
The increase to prominence of pits inside narratives of the British and Irish Neolithic is well-documented in fresh literature. Pits were cropping up in excavations for hundreds of years, leading to a really vast spectrum of interpretations yet 3 major components have ended in the hot switch in our notion and illustration of those positive factors: a huge shift in people's expectancies as to what a Neolithic payment will be; the improvement of the idea that of 'structured deposition', during which pits have performed a key position; and a dramatic upward push within the variety of pits really identified approximately. Development-led archaeology, and the customarily very huge parts its excavations disclose, has easily published many extra pits. The 15 papers during this quantity discover those inter-related components and current new ideas and interpretations bobbing up from new research of Neolithic pits and their contents.
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At Billown Quarry Site at least two pits can be assigned to the later fifth millennium cal BC. The largest is a 3m deep shaft, F376, that may have started as a localized natural collapse structure formed by glacial till sinking into a solution hollow or doline in the underlying limestone bedrock. Enlargement of the natural feature is evident, and the resulting hole was sealed by oak planks that later caught fire. Charcoal from one plank has been dated to 4899–4719 cal BC (Beta-110691: 5910±70 BP).
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