The date and context of a stone row: Cut Hill, Dartmoor, south-west England

Antiquity

Volumn 84, Issue 323, 2010, Pages 55-70

  Fyfe, Ralph M ^a   Greeves, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brittany; Dating; Devon; England; Environmental sequence; Fourth millennium BC; Megaliths; Neolithic; Peat; Stone rows

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952946919     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00099762     Document Type: Article

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