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A Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) Source for Early Roman Yellow Tesserae and Opus Sectile in Southern Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2010

J.R.L. Allen  and
J.A. Todd
J.R.L. Allen
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, j.r.l.allen@reading.ac.uk
J.A. Todd
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London, j.todd@nhm.ac.uk
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Britannia , Volume 41 , November 2010 , pp. 317 - 321
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2010. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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