Britnell, W. J. and Silvester, R., eds. (2012). Reflections on the Past: Essays in Honour of Frances Lynch. Cambrian Archaeological Association. https://doi.org/10.5284/1091077. Cite this via datacite
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West of Wessex but only just: round barrow construction on the Mendip Hills, Somerset | ||
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Reflections on the Past: Essays in Honour of Frances Lynch | ||
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Cambrian Archaeological Association Monographs | ||
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194 - 209 | ||
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The upland limestone plateau of the Mendip Hills is situated in the northern part of the county of Somerset in south-west England (Fig. 1). It is a distinctive karst landscape, with striking limestone gorges carving the steep sides of the plateau, and caves and sinkholes giving access to another, subterranean, world. Stuart Piggott (1938) considered Mendip geographically to form part of the Wessex region, separated from the chalk only by the Frome Gap: a narrow belt of poor soils as little as two miles wide. He also considered Mendip to be part of the ‘Wessex Culture’ of the Early Bronze Age and artefacts from Mendip barrows are illustrated and discussed in the 1938 paper, demonstrating close links with this cultural heartland. This paper will explore some of those relationships, but also suggest that Mendip had close, possibly closer, links with south-east Wales during this period. | ||
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2012 | ||
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31 Mar 2022 |
