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- 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ↑ "Archaeological Overview and Assessment, Bunker Hill Monument" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
- ↑ "Middle Archaic Settlement in the Cochato-Monatiquot River Drainage: The Gill Farm Sites, Randolph, Massachusetts" (PDF). Bridgewater State University. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
- ↑ "2014 Annual Report" (PDF). Robert S. Peabody Museum. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
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