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A Mansio at Lower Wanborough, Wiltshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Bernard Phillips  and
Bryn Walters
Bernard Phillips
Affiliation:
176, Shrivenham Road, Swindon, Wiltshire
Bryn Walters
Affiliation:
176, Shrivenham Road, Swindon, Wiltshire
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The two writers have been involved for a number of years with research on the Romano-British settlement at Lower Wanborough. Recent field-work, and aerial photographs taken of some remarkable cropmarks, have shown that the site was not an irregular linear growth along the main highway, but had developed a system of insulae in which was a substantial Mansio.

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Britannia , Volume 8 , November 1977 , pp. 223 - 227
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Copyright © Bernard Phillips and Bryn Walters 1977. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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