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| Description | Correspondence between H W Ball, Peter Andrews and Robin G Harvey, relating to the purchase of equipment, the casting of anthropological material, internal funding of research projects, and the possible transfer of Neolithic skeletal material from Peterborough from the Museum of Archaeology at Cambridge to the BM(NH)
Correspondence between H W Ball and Don Brothwell which includes discussions on Bacon Hole excavations
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