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Excavation of Deeping St Nicholas Barrow Site 28, Lincolnshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

C. A. I. French
C. A. I. French*
Affiliation:
Fenland Archaeological Trust, The Old School, Glinton Road, Helpston, Peterborough PE6 7DG, UK
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Accounts of the early barrow-diggers are chilling, both in their tales of prehistoric wood and textiles that blew away to dust at the touch of the spade, and in their vigour, a barrow quarried out in an afternoon, a barrow cemetery in a fortnight. Salvage imperatives, in advance of destruction by drainage in the Lincolnshire Fens, now make necessary the rare excavation of a whole barrow cemetery, with a happier organic outcome.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 248 , September 1991 , pp. 580 - 582
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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