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Nancy was not alone: human skeletons of the Early Bronze Age from the Norfolk peat fen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Frances Healy  and
Rupert A. Housley
Frances Healy
Affiliation:
Oxford Archaeological Unit, 46 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2EP, UK
Rupert A. Housley
Affiliation:
Oxford University Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, UK
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Four separate finds of human skeletal remains from the Norfolk Fens have been 14C-dated to the Early Bronze Age. It is suggested that they are a facet of the far more extensive deposition of bodies and artefacts in wet places.

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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 253 , December 1992 , pp. 948 - 955
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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