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The Excavation of Three ‘Narrow Blade’ Mesolithic Sites in the Southern Pennines, England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

Jeffrey Radley ,
J. H. Tallis  and
V. R. Switsur
J. H. Tallis
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, University of Manchester; Sub-Department of Quaternary Research, University of Cambridge
V. R. Switsur
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, University of Manchester; Sub-Department of Quaternary Research, University of Cambridge
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Editor's note: Throughout the 1960's Jeffrey Radley was engaged in research on the Mesolithic sites of the southern Pennine area. A report on his excavations at Deepcar was published in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society for 1964 (Radley and Mellars 1964) and accounts of further fieldwork undertaken in collaboration with F. Hepworth and G. Marshall appeared in various issues of the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal and the Derbyshire Archaeological Journal (Radley and Marshall 1963, 1965; Radley 1967, 1968). Shortly before his death in 1970 he was preparing a general article summarizing the present state of knowledge concerning the ‘Narrow Blade’ microlithic industries of the Pennines, and incorporating reports on the excavation of three previously unrecorded sites which fall clearly into this Narrow Blade group. One of the chief aims of this article was to draw attention to the typological diversity which can be observed within the later Mesolithic industries of northern Britain, and to contrast these assemblages with the ‘Broad Blade’ industries as represented at the sites of Deepcar and elsewhere.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 40 , December 1974 , pp. 1 - 19
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1974

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