Over the years, I have seen many thousands of bricks dumped in the
field without comment. But what distinguishes bricks from all the
other ceramics on a site? Basically bricks are different because
they are "everywhere" and therefore are dismissed as uninformative.
Bullbleep!
Bricks are a great interpretive class of artifacts, but they are the
Rodney Daingerfield of historical archaeology.
Bricks should be treated as significant ceramic artifacts and
analysed as any other artifacts. We are currently working on a
multiple-site survey of a large tract, and we are saving and
cataloguing every brick we find. The results have been stunning.
Anita asked for intro, even from the GOF set. Right now I'm busy
sorting bricks.
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Sitting here drinking diet mead
from my plastic fake auroch's horn
flagon, I wonder that my
contemporaries look like a bunch of
old geezers.