Levens Park ring cairn (IMAGE)

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Levens Park ring cairn

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Levens Park ring cairn in Cumbria, UK. To the right of the solitary large boulder is a circular penannular ring with three ~4,000 year old female inhumation burials, one of which carried Yersinia pestis DNA sequenced in the present study.

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Ian Hodkinson, I.D.Hodkinson@ljmu.ac.uk.

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