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World Archaeology Volume 30, 1998 - Issue 1: The Past in the Past: The Reuse of Ancient Monuments
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A fear of the past: The place of the prehistoric burial mound in the ideology of middle and later Anglo‐Saxon England

Sarah Semple The Queen's College, Oxford, OX1 4AW
Pages 109-126 | Published online: 15 Jul 2010

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