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Misleading images: Stonehenge and Brittany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Chris Scarre
Chris Scarre*
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER, England
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Does a unique eroded prehistoric carving on one of the sarsen uprights at Stonehenge link the most famous of English megalithic monuments to Brittany?

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 274 , December 1997 , pp. 1016 - 1020
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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