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Ard marks under barrows: a response to Peter Rowley-Conwy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Kristian Kristiansen*
Affiliation:
Ministry of the Environment, The National Forest & Nature Agency, Slotsmarken 13, DK-2970 Hørsholm, Denmark

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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Are the ard-marks found under so many later prehistoric barrows in Denmark – and elsewhere in northern Europe – a matter of ritual, or of routine, or of both? A continuing debate continues some more.

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