Wednesday 10 December 2008

What would you put in your pit ?

Reading last night about the abundance of pits in the Down Farm ritual landscape. These pits belong to the same era as, and are adjacent to, the burial of our Mendip woman.
The pits all have objects in them. Bits of pottery. In one zone, most have antlers or tines from an antler ; plus bones, broken stone axes, whatever. In another zone, lots of cow bones. Odd things too - a dog skull with a worked flint ball : a large flint nodule which looked exactly like a cow skull ; a cow skull with a toad skeleton in its eye socket; a beautiful flint all shiny and stripy like a mint humbug.

What would you put in your pit?
Why?

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