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The context of Early Medieval barrows in western Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robert Van De Noort
Robert Van De Noort*
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In the early Middle Ages there was a short period when prehistoric burial mounds were reused and new barrows constructed over much of western Europe. This is interpreted as an expression of opposition to the new Christian ideology, in a time of social changes in the distribution of power and property.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 254 , March 1993 , pp. 66 - 73
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