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Fourth-Century Manning of the ‘Fossatum Africae’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

G. D. B. Jones
Affiliation:
Dept. of Archaeology, University of Manchester
D. J. Mattingly
Affiliation:
Dept. of Archaeology, University of Manchester

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Britannia , Volume 11 , November 1980 , pp. 323 - 326
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Copyright © G. D. B. Jones and D. J. Mattingly 1980. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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48 See the Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus, H. Russell Robinson, op. cit. (note 42), pl. 463–4, and the actual shield from Kasr el Harit, Kimmig, Germania (1940), 106. This shield is almost certainly Roman and not Celtic.

49 Buckland, op. cit. (note 37), 247.

50 In the opinion of Dr Hugh Chapman.

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52 In the opinion of Mrs Merrilee Parrott, conservator.

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54 M. W. C. Hassall, ‘Roman Soldiers in Roman London’, in Archaeological Theory and Practice, essays presented to Prof. W. F. Grimes, ed. D. Strong (1973).

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56 Jean Baradez, ibid., 100–6, 130–49. Also ‘Complements inedits au Fossatum Africae’ in Studien zu den Militargrenzen Roms (Vorträge des 6. internationalen Limes/congresses in Süddeutschland) (1967), 200–10.

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59 Cod. Theod. vii. 15. 1. Emperors Theodosius and Honorius to the vicar of Africa, April A.D. 409.

60 Baradez, op. cit. (note 55), 9, 10, 12 and 244–7. Fentress, op. cit. (note 55), 90.

61 Baradez, op. cit. (note 56), 205–9.