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A late Neolithic complex at West Kennet, Wiltshire, England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alasdair Whittle
Alasdair Whittle*
Affiliation:
School of History and Archaeology, University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff CF1 3XU
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The Avebury region has been given World Heritage status for its complex of Neolithic sites - Avebury itself, Silbury Hill, the West and East Kennet long barrows, and others. New fieldwork reveals a further complex of sites on the edges of the Kennet valley bottom.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 247 , June 1991 , pp. 256 - 262
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1991

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