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The Date of the ‘Celtic’ Field-Systems on the Berkshire Downs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Steve Ford
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Reading University
Mark Bowden
Affiliation:
RCHME, The University, Newcastle on Tyne
Geoff Mees
Affiliation:
63, Derwent Drive, Maidenhead, Berks.

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Britannia , Volume 19 , November 1988 , pp. 401 - 404
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Copyright © Steve Ford, Mark Bowden, Geoff Mees and Vince Gaffney 1988. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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44 A fuller report has been submitted to the Berkshire Archaeological Journal.

45 The Berkshire Field Research Group would like to thank Dr M. Fulford for his assistance in the preparation of this note, and Lloyds Bank for grant aid from their fund for independent archaeologists.