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Bibliography AAHRG 2001 Archaeological Research Agenda for the Allen, M J and Davis, B 2009 A Middle Neolithic pit Avebury World Heritage Site. Salisbury, Wessex in the West Kennet (stone) Avenue, Avebury, Archaeology on behalf of English Heritage and 2005, Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag 102, Avebury Archaeological and Historical Research 12–21 Group (AAHRG) Allen, M J and Gardiner, J 2002 A sense of time: Abbot, M and Anderson-Whymark, H 2012 cultural markers in the Mesolithic of southern Stonehenge Laser Scan: archaeological analysis England, in B David and M Wilson (eds) report. English Heritage project 6457. English Inscribed Landscapes: marking and making place, Heritage Research Report Series no. 32-2012, 139–53. 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