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Michael Fulford, Jane Timby, Timing Devices, Fermentation Vessels, 'Ritual' Piercings? A Consideration of Deliberately 'Holed' Pots from Silchester and Elsewhere, Britannia, Vol. 32 (2001), pp. 293-297
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