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That excavation site near Bath showed more Roman pottery in the top layer than in the layer below it, what changed around 200 AD?
Last month I saw the dig report from that field outside Bath where the top 30cm of soil had hundreds of pot sherds but the next 20cm down had almost none, so did the Romans just stop using that area for trash after the second century or did someone haul in a load of fill dirt much later that explains all that broken pottery being on top?
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patkelly1mo ago
Hell yeah, @roberts.troy is spot on! I saw the same thing happen on a site near my folks' place where Victorian-era farmers trucked in old fill from a demolished Roman villa to level a wet spot, and it mixed all the sherds up wrong.
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roberts.troy1mo ago
Heard a mate say they dumped loads of imported soil on that field in the 1800s to improve drainage, bringing up old pottery with it.
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