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Wall Paintings from the Winchester Palace Site, Southwark

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

S.A. Mackenna  and
Roger Ling
S.A. Mackenna
Affiliation:
Department of Greater London Archaeology (Southwark and Lambeth)
Roger Ling
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
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During 1983, in advance of redevelopment, archaeologists from the Museum of London's Department of Greater London Archaeology investigated the site once occupied by the palace of the medieval Bishops of Winchester, 250 metres west of the southern end of London Bridge. The excavations revealed a series of Roman buildings dating from the first to the fourth centuries a.d., one of which yielded the painted wall-plaster which forms the subject of the present article.

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Britannia , Volume 22 , November 1991 , pp. 159 - 171
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Copyright © S.A. Mackenna and Roger Ling 1991. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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