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Archaeology and History

 Laura Burnett

Laura Burnett

Postgraduate Researcher
History

Laura Burnett is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Exeter in History and Archaeology. She is an archaeologist with a specialism in British small finds and numismatics and worked for the Portable Antiquities Scheme in Oxford, Sussex and Somerset for 15 years.  She has a particular interest in economic and social history and in how money operates as a social system within past societies.

She is the author of numerous papers in county, national and international journals on archaeological small finds and of two popular books: '50 Finds From Somerset' and '50 Post Medieval and Modern Finds'.

See https://exeter.academia.edu/LauraBurnett for articles and extracts from her work.

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