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The Experimental Earthworks revisited1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Paul Ashbee and
Peter Jewell
Paul Ashbee
Affiliation:
The Old Rectory, Chedgrave, Norwich NR14 6ND, England
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Abstract

Few archaeological projects set out with the intention of running for decades. The committee of the Experimental Earthwork project, however, developed an elaborate programme from 1960 until well into the 3rd millennium AD, designed to study the long-term processes of earthwork construction and change. Paul Ashbee and the late Peter Jewell present their personal view of the aims, experiences and some results of this project.

Sadly Peter Jewell died on 23 May 1998, and this paper is a fitting tribute to his major role in the enterprise.

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Chalklandearthwork weatheringerosionWiltshireDorsetFyfieldOvertonexperiment

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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 277 , September 1998, pp. 485 - 504
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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On the occasion of the publication of Bell M. Fowler P.J.& Hillson S.M. (e d.). 1996. The Experimental Earthwork Project 2960-1992. York: Council for British Archaology . Research report 100.

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