⁴⁰ The author is grateful to the following who looked at photographs of the graffito and made helpful comments, suggestions and references: Dr Miranda Green, Mark Hassall and Dr Martin Henig.

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⁴² Mr Paul Barford kindly studied this sherd of pottery, with its associated material in advance of the full pottery report and writes, ‘This sherd is from a black colour-coat Nene Valley funnel-neck beaker which may be dated to mid to late 3rd century A.D. The pottery generally from this rubbish pit suggests a date no earlier than mid 3rd but is probably late 3rd century’. See similar examples in Howe, M. D., Perrin, J. R. and Mackreth, D. F., Roman pottery from the Nene Valley: a guide Occasional Paper No. 2, Peterborough City Museum (1981).Google Scholar

⁴³ Illustrated in Hebditch, M., South Western British Roman Collections: Guide Catalogue, Pt I (1970) pl. xii, City Museum Bristol.Google Scholar

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⁴⁵ Turnbull, P., ‘The Phallus in the Art of Roman Britain’, Bull. Inst. Arch. Univ. London xv (1978), 199–206.Google Scholar

⁴⁶ Illustrated in Green, M. J., Small Cult-objects from Military Areas of Roman Britain, BAR 52 (1978), pl. 140.Google Scholar