What’s the best thing you have dug up? Olivia (8)
When people ask me this question it’s always a difficult one to answer! Probably the best single object I have ever found as a bronze dagger from about 1500BC that came from a round barrow I was digging in Berkshire about 40 years ago.
But for the information that it provided, then the pit that I dug near Stonehenge about 30 years ago has really to be the best. It was full of animal bones, flint tools and pottery – the remains of a huge feast that took place about 6,000 years ago and told me so much about a time when hunter-gatherers were becoming farmers – at the beginning of the Neolithic. This is a fascinating time and the contents of this pit, just rubbing really, gave me a window into their world.
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