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New light on Atlantic seaboard passage-grave chronology: radiocarbon dates from La Hougue Bie (Jersey)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mark Patton
Mark Patton*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Wales, Trinity College, Carmarthen SA31 3EP, Dyfed, Wales
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Abstract

A series of dates for La Hougue Bie, the Jersey passage-grave, shows its complex history of abandonment as well as construction. People were a long time leaving, as well as making, this sacred place.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 264 , September 1995 , pp. 582 - 586
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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