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Towards an archaeology of navvy huts and settlements of the industrial revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Michael Morris
Michael Morris*
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Chester Archaeological Service, Grosvenor Museum, 27 Grosvenor St, Chester CH1 2DD, England
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Around any great construction enterprise, whether Victorian railway viaduct or contemporary motorway, there will be a passing scatter of huts and buildings, swept away when the project is complete and the builders have moved on. In the unmechanized age, this meant large numbers of hands and large settlements, which have their archaeological trace.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 260 , September 1994 , pp. 573 - 584
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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