Iron Age Camps

[willpalin]

How can you identify Iron Age Sites if not previously recorded?

[samz90]

If you were to find some bones from the site you could find out how old the bones were using carbon dating. Tiny amounts of radioactive carbon-14 pass in and out of all living things, however when we die some of the carbon still exists. As time goes on the radiation gets weaker and weaker. Scientists can use this method to work out the age of i.e.a mummy.

Hope this helps.

[Clanad]

Additionally, tools and especially pottery shards identify the age of such sites quite readily...

[willpalin]

I'm not sure if I'm doing this correctly but wish to augment the question. More precisely; how can you tell if a piece of land was once an Iron Age Settlement? Without excuvation? There are a series of stones in a rough circle and three or four circular depresions on a field similer to nearby sites that have been identified as north and south Iron Age Camps. I'm hoping this could be the west camp previously unidentified. Also there may be a large standing stone discarded in the hedge/bank. In other words how are/were encampments laid-out? Thanks for your help so far, much appreciated, Will.