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Alison Sheridan
Alison Sheridan*
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*Department of Archaeology, National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, UK (Email: a.sheridan@nms.ac.uk)
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Antiquity , Volume 84 , Issue 325 , September 2010 , pp. 884 - 889
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