Talk:Ancient history of Mellor
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This page is OK, but needs more. Lots more. I'd like to start a discussion on what the "lots" might be.
Want: A photograph for each of the eras
What I'd like to have is a photograph of something found for each era, to give the dating some perspective and the timeframe some sense of continuity. People will then be able to see progression, rather than see periods that may or may not entirely click with them.
Want: A photograph for each of the major finds
Again, this is a pretty obvious one. The problem is not in finding an image - there are plenty - but finding an image that won't have licensing issues. That can be tougher.
(Well, for the pot, I'd REALLY love a VRML or other 3D representation, but I don't think MediaWiki has support for anything like that, and most browsers certainly don't.)
Want: A non-OS map of the projected site, with known structures clearly marked and known digs also labelled
Now I'm asking for a lot, but the only way to display the map without running foul of the Ordinance Survey copyrights is to not use their data.
Question: What categories should this be under? "Hill fort" is an obvious one, but only the Iron Age settlement fits into that category. That's 500 years out of the 9,000 years covered by the article. Or maybe the article is too generalized, covering just too many totally different things. Splitting it seems stupid, though - the subsections are too small to really stand alone, and it would be absurd for Mellor's ancient history to be covered by almost an entire encyclopedia in its own right. Experts on all things Wiki, ==please== offer some guidance!
