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Llangorse: a 10th-century royal crannog in Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ewan Campbell  and
Alan Lane
Ewan Campbell
Affiliation:
School of History & Archaeology, University of Wales College of Cardiff, PO Box 909, Cardiff CF1 3XU
Alan Lane
Affiliation:
School of History & Archaeology, University of Wales College of Cardiff, PO Box 909, Cardiff CF1 3XU
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Abstract

Crannogs, artificial island settlements built of stone and timber in lakes, are a feature of Scotland and Ireland from later prehistoric times to the medieval period. They have been absent from England and Wales until the recognition that is reported here of the Llangorse site–known and puzzling for a century–as a first Welsh crannog, and a special one.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 241 , December 1989 , pp. 675 - 681
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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