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Saving the Sweet Track: The in situ preservation of a Neolithic wooden trackway, Somerset, UK

Richard Brunning
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David Hogan
,
Julie Jones
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Mark Jones
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Ed Maltby
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Mark Robinson
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Vanessa Straker
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Pages 3-20 | Published online: 18 Jul 2013

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