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A high-status Anglo-Saxon settlement at Flixborough, Lincolnshire

Part of: Anglo-Saxon archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

C. P. Loveluck
C. P. Loveluck*
Affiliation:
Humber Archaeology Partnership, The Old School, Northumberland Avenue, Kingston upon Hull HU2 0LN, England
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Abstract

Excavations at Flixborough, Lincolnshire (1989–91) revealed an important Anglo-Saxon settlement. Here the various interpretations are discussed, ranging from monastic to ‘magnate’.

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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 275 , March 1998 , pp. 146 - 161
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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