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Cover illustration volume 1: View of the tunnels in tumulus 6, photo A. Kamrowski
Cover illustration volume 2: Pottery assemblage in chamber 2 of tumulus 26, photo A. Kamrowski
Cover illustration volume 3: Gold-alloy finger-ring with a ribbed hoop and lozenge-shaped bezel set with mosaic glass in a checkerboard pattern (Z4/97). Photo by A. Kamrowski.
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ISSN 2352-7501
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