I have been searching for any published information on what I will call the identification of "The Den of Bodam" alcoves.
There are none to my knowledge!
Contradictions welcomed!
Clarification:-
Existence of Neolithic mining in the area is well known!
Raison d'etre for the alcoves has never been,publicly; bottomed out!
Even the late Dr. Saville could not provide me with an explanation when I met him on the way up on my second visit as he was coming down from one of his.
To be continued!
Big question!
At our meeting on the Den of Bodam I asked the late Dr Saville a question!
"What are these Lithics doing up here in those alcoves"
"No answer" was the loud reply!
This evening I compared past papers published by some past and some; currently existing, Archaeologists.
As far as Palaeolithic Scotland is concerned they seem to have followed a path set out before them by someone else who is no longer with us but with whom I had the pleasure of having a good and honest conversation with on the trail up to and down from the Den of Bodam!
To be continued!
Over the past few years I have been investigating past Saville papers and found them seriously wanting as regard to his interpretation and ultimate disregard to the possibility of there ever being a Palaeolithic evidence of human habitation in NE of Scotland!
I only wish that I had been able to tell him that "Face to Face"!
Watch this Space!
evi
Nailed it!
why were there never any official archaeological excavations carried out on the Moss of Cruden!!
Why not?
Dr. Saville, etal; expose's of Neolithic artefacts in carefully arranged alcoves on the Den of Bodam were known to the population of the North East of Scotland hundreds of years before he was ever thought of!
What I am interested in is what came before and might have been missed by Saville!
Watch this Space!
He missed a lot!
What came first?
Our Mains of Waterton findings easily equate to or predate or coexist with Boxgrove exposures!
I have visited both sites and exposed a, possible; Archaeological embarrassment!
It concerns certain Saville publications which I will be investigating for clarification!
Tonight I was in the process of composing a letter to Caroline Wickam Jones.
When I tried to find her current address I was saddened to find out that she was no longer with us.
Caroline was one of the first archaeologists to agree that our findings from the moss of Cruden were indeed PALAEOLITHIC but that I had to get the Geomorphology sorted out!
This was done!
I only wish that I could have been able to tell her that, face to face!
RIP.
