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The Excavation of a Late Neolithic Enclosure at Marden, Wiltshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

G. J. Wainwright ,
J. G. Evans  and
I. H. Longworth
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Excavations in 1969 within a 35-acre enclosure at Marden on the north bank of the River Avon in the Vale of Pewsey confirmed its association with the Grooved Ware ceramic style and its superficial resemblances to the Durrington Walls enclosure ten miles downstream. A survey of the enclosure produced an unusual plan bounded by a bank with an internal ditch and on the south side by the River Avon itself, whilst the position of the Hatfield Barrow was established by geophysical means. Within the north-entrance causeway a small circular timber structure was recorded in a comparable position to the much larger building at Durrington Walls.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , September 1971 , pp. 177 - 239
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1971

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