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Town Defences in Roman Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Antiquity , Volume 39 , Issue 155 , September 1965 , pp. 225 - 227
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1965

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[1] Arch.J., CXIX, 1964, 103.Google Scholar The article has been revised to include new evidence and will be reprinted in (ed.) J. S. Wacher, Civitas Capitals of Roman Britain (Leicester University Press, forthcoming).

[2] J. S. Wacher, Excavations at Brough-on-Humber, 1958–61 (forthcoming). See Antiq. J., XL, 58–64, for the sequence of town defences. The figure of 120 years is based on a recent examination of all the finds from 18 sections. The t.p.q. for the rampart is a.d. 150, while that for the wall is a.d. 270.

[3] See Antiq. J., XLI–XLIV, for interim reports. The t.p.q. for the early rampart is provided by Hadrianic-Antonine pottery, and for the stone wall by a large group of pottery containing late Antonine and early 3rd-century pieces (notably Gillam Types 226, 314, Arch. Ael., 4, XXXV, 1–72). Eight sections have now been cut across the defences.

[4] B. R. Hartley, Dating Town Buildings and Structures, in (ed.) J. S. Wacher, Civitas Capitals of Roman Britain (forthcoming).

[5] S. S. Frere, , ‘Verulamium—Then and Now’, Bull. Inst. Arch., IV, 1964, 69 Google Scholar.

[6] Antiq. J. XLI, pl. XVIII (section AB).