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Burnt mounds in the East Midlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Matt Beamish  and
Susan Ripper
Matt Beamish
Affiliation:
University of Leicester Archaeological Services, School of Archaeological Studies, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, England, mgb3@le.ac.uk sar6@le.ac.uk
Susan Ripper
Affiliation:
University of Leicester Archaeological Services, School of Archaeological Studies, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, England, mgb3@le.ac.uk sar6@le.ac.uk
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Within the last decade the emphasis of burnt mound research has been refocused on the prehistoric landscapes in which they are set in an attempt to evade just the perennial enigma of ‘function’. In the East Midlands, gravel quarrying in the major river valleys has provided an opportunity to examine large areas that have hitherto been masked by alluvium and the resulting wealth of archaeological information has included five burnt mound sites.

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News and Notes
Information
Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 283 , March 2000 , pp. 37 - 38
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2000

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