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Plough-marks, Lynchets and Early Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

P. J. Fowler  and
J. G. Evans
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The archaeology of early agriculture in Britain was succinctly summarized five years ago (Bowen, 1961). Since then, and largely stimulated by that publication, further work has produced some useful results, not only in the new and continuing field surveys which the author sought mainly to encourage but also by experiment and excavation. Our concern here is primarily with the application of excavation techniques and subsequent molluscan analysis to the study of early fields (cf. Tubbs and Dimbleby, 1965), our discussion arising largely from work carried out since 1961 and in particular from our own excavations in 1966.

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Antiquity , Volume 41 , Issue 164 , December 1967 , pp. 289 - 301
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1967

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