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Town or Temenos? A Reinterpretation of the Walled Area of Aquae Sulis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

K.R. Dark
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Clare Hall, Cambridge

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Britannia , Volume 24 , November 1993 , pp. 254 - 255
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Copyright © K.R. Dark 1993. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

68 B.W. Cunliffe and P. Davenport, The Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath, 1, The Site (1983); B.W. Cunliffe, The Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath, 2, The Finds from the Sacred Spring (1988). Subsequent work is summarised in Britannia xv (1984), 315–16Google Scholar; xvi (1985), 302; xvii (1986), 415; xviii (1987), 341–3; xix (1988), 470–1; xx (1989), 312–13; xxi (1990), 348. A recent summary is given in B.C. Burnham and J. Wacher, The ‘Small Towns’ of Roman Britain (1990), 341–476.

69 Burnham and Wacher, op. cit. (note 68), 167, fig. 49.

70 A.B. Norton, ‘Burials’, in B.W. Cunliffe (ed.), Roman Bath (1984), 212–18; Cunliffe and Davenport, op. cit. (note 68), 10–11.

71 For example, it is accepted as urban in Burnham and Wacher, op. cit. (note 68).

72 Cunliffe and Davenport, op. cit. (note 68), 10. Cunliffe restates his view, perhaps more strongly, in the official guidebook to the site: Cunliffe, The Roman Baths and Museum (1990), 5.

73 ibid., 9–10, 187, fig. 107.

74 For example, J.L. Cadoux, ‘Le Sanctuaire gallo-romain de Ribemont-Sur-Ancre’, Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie (1971), 43–70. The comparison with Bath is not mine: see Burnham and Wacher, op. cit. (note 68), 47.

75 ibid. 175, briefly reviewing ‘industry’ in Roman Bath and suggesting this interpretation for lead-working.

76 Cunliffe and Davenport, op. cit. (note 68), 184.