Clay, C. (2004). Iconoclasm in Roman Chester:. J Brit Archaeol Ass 157. Vol 157, pp. 1-16.

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Title:		 Iconoclasm in Roman Chester:
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Subtitle:		 the significance of the mutilated tombstones from the north wall
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Issue:		 J Brit Archaeol Ass 157
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Series:		 Journal of the British Archaeological Association
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Volume:		 157
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Page Start/End:		 1 - 16
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Publication Type:		 Journal
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Abstract:		 In the late nineteenth century over a hundred Roman tombstones were discovered built into the fabric of the north wall of the fortress at Chester. It has generally been assumed that the stones found their way into the walls as part of a rebuilding of the defences by Legio XX Valeria Victrix in the later Roman period. Although many of the stones showed signs of deliberate mutilation, this was dismissed as the consequence of their re-use. The paper aims to interrogate these assumptions by looking into the ideological implications behind the re-use of the monuments. It questions what happened to XX Valeria Victrix, which is not recorded in the Notitia Dignitatum, and whose last epigraphic traces are to be found on the coins of the defector Carausius, and suggests that the Twentieth was disbanded and its tombstones mutilated as a consequence of its involvement in the usurpbation.
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Author:		 Cheryl Clay
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Year of Publication:		 2004
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ROMAN (Historic England Periods)
Late Nineteenth Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
Walls (Auto Detected Subject)
Wall (Auto Detected Subject)
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Created Date:		 14 Jan 2005