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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
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, [email protected]
J.A. Todd
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London, [email protected]

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