hi all,

let me start by introducing myself, cos i only joined this list about
2 weeks ago. i am an archaeologist from the Netherlands and i just
finished an excavation in Amersfoort, which is in the middle of the
country.
what we found there was mainly from the iron age, we found 3 houses
and about 19 little storage houses. what we also found was a number
of dicolourations in the ground, blueish grey in colour, with
charcoal in it. the soil consists of sand that was blown here, from
the north, during the last ice age. the theory about these
discolourations in the ground is, that they are little fireplaces,
left there by little groups of hunters, during the mesolithic.

i know that from other places near Amersfoort there are a few feature
known that look similar to these, but they contained flint. the only
piece of flint we found so far is a little drill, about 3 cm long,
with a nice retouch.

ok, so my question is: is there anyone here who can shed some light
on these features? we did take charcoal samples for radiocarbon
dating, but we have to wait for funding before we can send them to
the lab.

i hope someone can help me with this,

greetings,

Natasja.