Combs, contact and chronology: Reconsidering hair combs in early-historic and Viking-Age Atlantic Scotland

Medieval Archaeology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-33

  Ashby, Steven P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 76749115812     PISSN: 00766097     EISSN: 1745817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/007660909X12457506806081     Document Type: Review

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