Tombs with a view: landscape, monuments and trees

Antiquity, June, 2003 by Vicki Cummings, Alasdair Whittle

Vicki Cummings * (1) & Alasdair Whittle (2) *

* School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales CF10 3XU (1 Email: cummingsVM@cardiff.ac.uk; 2 Email: whittle@cardiff.ac.uk)

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