Circaea 2

'Considerable caution should be used in assessing chronological ages from bone maturation. All that is justified is the use of maturation stages based on the four groups of bones which tend to fuse at about the same time.' Where these data conflict with dental data, the latter must take precedence.

Critique of Levitan 1983; response from Levitan on pp 75-6. (See also 86/1161.)

Some case studies where physical environmental studies assisted archaeology are: Shewalton Moss Meso artefacts on raised beach; Irvine (Strathclyde), probable loss of Roman port evidence; Shiels (near Glasgow), calculation of sealevel at time of Iron Age enclosure.

Reports evidence from Hoscar Moss, where the lower charcoal layer is of Meso date. (See also 86/1157.)