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The territory of ritual: cross-ridge boundaries and the prehistoric landscape of the Cleveland Hills, northeast England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

B. E. Vyner
B. E. Vyner*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of York, Micklegate House, Micklegate, York YO1 1JZ, England
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Abstract

On the North Yorkshire Moors, in northeast England, is a series of linear boundaries which are characteristically placed across upland spurs and promontories. Survey and excavation suggest that these boundaries operated in conjunction with natural features to define areas of the prehistoric landscape which may have been concerned with ritual during the final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 258 , March 1994 , pp. 27 - 38
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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