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Jan van der Crabben published on 02 August 2011 |
The School of Archaeology of Oxford University has just announced a new five-year project looking at the history of the English landscape from the middle Bronze Age to the Norman period. The results will be publicly available on a website to be called A Portal to the Past. The Portal to the Past website is expected to go live in 2014. Read the full Portal to the Past press release on the Oxford University website.
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