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Pont-de-l'Arche or Pîtres? a location and archaeomagnetic dating for Charles the Bald's fortifications on the Seine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Brian Dearden  and
Anthony Clark
Brian Dearden
Affiliation:
Brian Dearden, Department of Archaeology, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL
Anthony Clark
Affiliation:
Clark Consultancy, 19 The Crossways, Onslow Village, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5QC
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Abstract

Archaeomagnetic dating has recently come of age. The creation of the British reference curve in 1988 allows the authors plausibly to link a north French site with a well-known historical event

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 244 , September 1990 , pp. 567 - 571
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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