Need a picture from Skennerton books about the Lee Enfield rifle

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I know what you mean smelly, but don't forget I have found around 20 of these things, and others have been found by other diggers at the site, bringing the tally close to 60 of these things. You may have needed to engrave things, but would they really need this many?

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[Smellymarkfive]

I know what you mean smelly, but don't forget I have found around 20 of these things, and others have been found by other diggers at the site, bringing the tally close to 60 of these things. You may have needed to engrave things, but would they really need this many?

How many of these compared to other objects. Their amount can only be understood when compared to other finds. There may be 60 which sounds a lot, but if you're finding 100s of other things then it sounds less. Also is it found in association with other things, and what are their frequencies? Rubbish piles tend to build up over time and trying to find the sequence of deposition can be very informative about the objects in each event. That's the difference between archaeology and just digging stuff up, and how just digging stuff up can obliterate useful information. Having done both though, just digging stuff up is a bit more fun. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is the devil might be in the detail and it may be useful to properly excavate, you might find some of the logic to why certain things were dumped at different times.