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Natural wonders and national monuments: a meditation upon the fate of The Tolmen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Christopher Evans
Christopher Evans*
Affiliation:
Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Department of Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, England
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A key place in the 19th-century view of the British prehistoric landscape was taken by an ancient wonder which was was not a human or artificial device at all. An account of this anomaly is called for.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 259 , June 1994 , pp. 200 - 208
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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