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Publication details for Professor Sarah Semple
Semple, S. J (2003). Burials and Political Boundaries in the Avebury region, North Wiltshire. Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 12: 72-91.- Publication type: Journal Article
- ISSN/ISBN: 0264-5254, 0-947816-76-3
- Keywords: Landscape, burial, monumentality, kingship, kingdoms and frontiers
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Abstract
This paper explores the burial record of North Wiltshire and argues that the preponderance of barrow burials and common use of ancient remains as well as a number of isolated barrow burials relates particularly to the status of this region as a fluctuating frontier in the C7th to C8th AD.