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From Iron Age to Early Medieval: Detecting the Ecological Impact of the Romans on the Landscape of South-East Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2013

Alex Brown
Alex Brown*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Readinga.d.brown@reading.ac.uk
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Britannia , Volume 44 , November 2013 , pp. 250 - 257
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2013. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 

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