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A Late Bronze Age landscape on the Denbigh Moors, northeast Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John Manley
John Manley*
Affiliation:
Development & Tourism Department, Clwyd County Council, Shire Hall, Mold, Clwyd CH7 6NB
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Abstract

The identification by excavation of a small shepherd's hut within an enclosure at Graig Fechan and its radiocarbon dating suggests parallels with Dartmoor and the Peak District, when a few centuries of milder climate seem to have favoured upland farming

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 244 , September 1990 , pp. 514 - 526
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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