Taming the floodplain: River canalisation and causeway formation in the middle Anglo-Saxon period at Glastonbury, Somerset

Medieval Archaeology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 319-329

  Brunning, Richard ^a   Jones, Julie ^c   Tinsley, Heather ^c   Davies, Paul ^b  

^a SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b BATH SPA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

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EID: 78650090477     PISSN: 00766097     EISSN: 1745817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174581710X12790370815977     Document Type: Article

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