Serious mortality: The date of the fussell's lodge long barrow

Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL.1, 2007, Pages 65-84

  Wysocki, Michael ^a   Bayliss, Alex ^b   Whittle, Alasdair ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b ENGLISH HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fussell's Lodge; long barrow; radiocarbon dates

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953431983     PISSN: 09597743     EISSN: 14740540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774307000170     Document Type: Article

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