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Why did the idea of coaxial field systems last so long?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John W. M. Peterson*
Affiliation:
School of Information Systems, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ

Abstract

Andrew Fleming's 1987 paper identified coaxial field systems in the British landscapes that could be dated over a long time-period, from Neolithic to Roman. What does that time-span imply and amount to?

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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