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New Light on an Old Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Sometimes the Gods are kind, and so they seemed one morning during last season's excavations at Windmill Hill: when some minor official of that department which dispenses new ideas through such simple media as overflowing baths and falling apples, superintended the finding of a large quantity of fragments of ‘West Kennet’ type pottery, thickly ornamented with a clearly defined design and in the same layer-for this site singularly unproductivea small bird-bone.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1929 

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References

1 Near Avebury, Wilts; excavation of this site has been carried on annually since 1925.

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