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A Late Bronze Age landscape on the Denbigh Moors, northeast Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John Manley*
Affiliation:
Development & Tourism Department, Clwyd County Council, Shire Hall, Mold, Clwyd CH7 6NB

Abstract

The identification by excavation of a small shepherd's hut within an enclosure at Graig Fechan and its radiocarbon dating suggests parallels with Dartmoor and the Peak District, when a few centuries of milder climate seem to have favoured upland farming

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Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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