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The Stanwick Excavations, 1951. Interim Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

R. E. M. Wheeler
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In the parishes of Stanwick St. John and Forcett-with-Carkin, eight miles north of Richmond in the North Riding of Yorkshire, are more than six miles of rampart and ditch, forming a complex of enclosures of a very remarkable kind. Since Leland's day they have been a sufficiently notorious archaeological problem, but their size and remoteness on the one hand, and possibly the counter-attractions of Hadrian's Wall on the other, have combined to deter analytical investigation of them.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 32 , Issue 1-2 , April 1952 , pp. 1 - 13
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1952

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page 11 note 1 I am indebted to Dr. Gerhard Bersu, Hon. F.S.A., for these two analogies.

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