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East Chisenbury: ritual and rubbish at the British Bronze Age—Iron Age transition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David McOmish
David McOmish*
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RCHME, National Monuments Record Centre, Kemble Drive, Swindon SN2 2GZ, England
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Abstract

The repertoire of site-types for later English prehistory has not changed for a generation. Now, from East Chisenbury on Salisbury Plain, a new type is defined, a midden of refuse so large and strange it re-defines the concept of ‘rubbish’ and its ‘disposal’.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 267 , March 1996 , pp. 68 - 76
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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