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The timber circle at Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled, Welshpool, Powys: ritual and sacrifice in Bronze Age mid-Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alex Gibson
Alex Gibson*
Affiliation:
The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust, 7a Church Street, Welshpool, Powys SY21 7DL
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A circle of pits from the Welsh borders is another addition to the curious catalogue of British ceremonial monuments of the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, and provides – as often before – intriguing clues as to how it was structured and used.

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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 250 , March 1992 , pp. 84 - 92
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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