An Indication of Northern Souls: Revisiting the ‘Territory of Ritual’

Blaise Vyner

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This article revisits the interpretation of the distinctive cross-ridge boundaries of north-east Yorkshire and explains a regular association between these features and the far earlier Early Bronze Age burial mounds. Radiocarbon dating and palynological evidence now provides a chronology for the boundaries, while field survey and excavation evidence confirms a new and specific role for cross-ridge boundaries in protecting long established Early Bronze Age funerary areas and enabling their continued veneration in the changing landscape of the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age.

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cross-ridge, boundary, chronology, funerary, territory

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