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THE BRITISH ISLANDS AND THEIR VEGETATION. By A. G. Tansley. Cambridge University Press. 1939. pp. XXXVIII, 930, with 162 plates containing 418 photographs, and 179 text-figures. 45s.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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1 The culmination of this first phase might be said to be Dr Williams Freeman's map of Hampshire (An Introduction to Field Archaeology of Hampshire, facing p. 446) which broke new ground in the still new field of archaeological distribution-maps.

2 In Wales the best evidence is provided by the inland group of long cairns in the Black Mountains of Brecknockshire (Arch. Camb. 1936, 259182) ; it is backed up by many individual sites. In Scotland Childe's Solway-Clyde Group of megaliths shows best the same features (prehist. Scotland, Map I, etc.).