Nathan, I’m on my hols so can’t give links to where I know things from atm, so can just tell you what I found before leaving, but since you keep posting interesting stuff I wont wait till Hols are over. Yes I have the Buster data sets, have you had a chance to look at the DEFRA Lidar data?, it was on my to do list.
Re second festival.
March 23 is the first festival and May 23 is the second one, first is for Mars, the God of War, and starts the years military campaigns, Army is asked if they are ready for war and they respond, ready ready ready, and the next day wills are recorded, second on 23rd is for Vulcan, God who makes the implements for warfare, and blesses the weapons and gear for war.
Re seasons.
Celtic calendar had 8 seasons, same as Marcus varro book on the Roman 4 seasons* and 8 season calendar, Celtic farming was a single crop of emmer allowing its natural cycle, which takes 8 months to grow without manure, the adoption of a 2 crop cycle with manure, is a man made adaption.Ovid also has some interesting tidbits.
*Rome has 4 seasons spring 7th Feb, is for sowing, summer May 9th, for reaping, while in the 8 season calendar he also gives us, it’s in line with Celtic calendar.Different Callander for different circumstances.
Its poss that blaming no crops being being sown was from observing a single crop system in operation, when expecting to see a 2 crop cycle and observing things out of sequence from that point of view, this was how slavery in the USA was thought to be un economic compared to free labour as northern observers viewed it that way, not understanding its cycle and mis understanding their observation.
If you look at when emmer or spelt are harvested, your going to have to be creative in getting it all in a year.
Roman way of telling time, and what they can do in that time, preclude giving them modern number of hours to do it, the distance a legion can March was defined by how they measure time, if you then say but there is 16 hours of daylight they can triple that, that’s not how a Roman would have seen it, just as giving 16 hours of daylight for the days combat is over cooking it.
Re second festival.
March 23 is the first festival and May 23 is the second one, first is for Mars, the God of War, and starts the years military campaigns, Army is asked if they are ready for war and they respond, ready ready ready, and the next day wills are recorded, second on 23rd is for Vulcan, God who makes the implements for warfare, and blesses the weapons and gear for war.
Re seasons.
Celtic calendar had 8 seasons, same as Marcus varro book on the Roman 4 seasons* and 8 season calendar, Celtic farming was a single crop of emmer allowing its natural cycle, which takes 8 months to grow without manure, the adoption of a 2 crop cycle with manure, is a man made adaption.Ovid also has some interesting tidbits.
*Rome has 4 seasons spring 7th Feb, is for sowing, summer May 9th, for reaping, while in the 8 season calendar he also gives us, it’s in line with Celtic calendar.Different Callander for different circumstances.
Its poss that blaming no crops being being sown was from observing a single crop system in operation, when expecting to see a 2 crop cycle and observing things out of sequence from that point of view, this was how slavery in the USA was thought to be un economic compared to free labour as northern observers viewed it that way, not understanding its cycle and mis understanding their observation.
If you look at when emmer or spelt are harvested, your going to have to be creative in getting it all in a year.
Roman way of telling time, and what they can do in that time, preclude giving them modern number of hours to do it, the distance a legion can March was defined by how they measure time, if you then say but there is 16 hours of daylight they can triple that, that’s not how a Roman would have seen it, just as giving 16 hours of daylight for the days combat is over cooking it.
