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Reconsidering Britain's first urban communities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

Martin Pitts
Martin Pitts*
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University of Exeter, [email protected]
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Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 27 , 2014 , pp. 133 - 173
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