New avenues for the investigation of currently occupied medieval rural settlement: Preliminary observations from the Higher Education Field Academy

Medieval Archaeology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2007, Pages 133-163

  Lewis, Carenza ^a  

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EID: 67650491725     PISSN: 00766097     EISSN: 1745817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174581707x224697     Document Type: Review

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19. and 1996 (C. Lewis, Medieval Settlement in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (unpubl. rep. for RCHME, 1997)) quantified the extent of this problem in the counties of Leicestershire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Leicestershire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
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