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The Nothia Dignitatum and the Western Mints
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2012
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Two sharply contrasted views are held about the duration of Roman government in Britain and in the West generally. The traditional view, which I believe to be substantially correct, dates the abandonment of Britain early in the fifth century. The late Professor Bury put forward in 1920 a theory that the occupation was maintained down to A.D. 438. The theory was based primarily on a later dating of the Notitia Dignitatum, and on a mistaken estimate of the numismatic evidence.
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1 JRS x, 131.
2 JRS XVII, 102 ff.
3 XVIII Ber. d. Rom.-Germ. Komm., p. 92, n. 2.
4 Above, pp. 40–44..
5 8, 9, ‘Filiam suam potitus imperio dato patrimonio emancipaverat, quod ei cum Augustae nomine statim sublatum est.’ Perhaps quod refers loosely to patrimonio.
6 Vita Ant. Pii, 7, 9.
7 Eutropius viii, 17 calls them both Salvius.
8 ‘Avus,’ Eutr.; ‘proavus,’ Vita Did. Jul.
9 Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. and Arch. Soc. 1930: Num. Cbron. 1931, pp. 14 ff.
10 Num. Cbron. I.c., p. 19.
11 Perhaps the insular independence of the British garrisons from Maximus to Constantine III was responsible.
12 de cons. Stilich. liber iii, 234–6:— ‘si solveret ignisquas dedit inmanes vili pro pondere massas Argenti, potuere lacus et flumina fundi.’
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