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Period	Select from list below Prehistoric Palaeolithic Upper Palaeolithic Mesolithic Early Mesolithic Late Mesolithic Neolithic Early Neolithic Middle Neolithic Late Neolithic Bronze Age Early Bronze Age Middle Bronze Age Late Bronze Age Iron Age Early Iron Age Middle Iron Age Late Iron Age Roman Early Medieval Medieval Post Medieval Modern Undated
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Source	Select from list below OASIS CTRL ALSF The rural settlement of Roman Britain project Alan Vince Archive Highways Agency Lincolnshire County Council North Yorkshire HER Marches Archaeology Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit
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If you do a search with multiple instances of Title, Author, Period, Monument or Find, you will received results back of records containing all of these criteria.
For instance: Title: Back and Title: Lane
Will find: 'Evaluation at Land off Back Lane, Great Malvern'

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For instance: Parish: Malvern and Parish: Worcester
Will find reports from both Malvern and Worcester.

So a fuller example might be:
Date: 1996
Date: 1997
Author: Ratkai
County: Hereford and Worcester
Will find anything written by Ratkai in either 1996 or 1997 in Hereford and Worcester.

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