A short passage of time: The dating of the hazleton long cairn revisited

Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL.1, 2007, Pages 45-64

  Meadows, John ^a   Barclay, Alistair ^b   Bayliss, Alex ^a  

^a ENGLISH HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WESSEX ARCHAEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hazleton; long cairn; radiocarbon dates

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149103944     PISSN: 09597743     EISSN: 14740540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774307000169     Document Type: Article

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