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The Conservation of Romano-British Painted Plaster*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Norman Davey
Norman Davey*
Affiliation:
Porch House, Potterne, Devizes, Wilts
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Extract

Many hundreds of fragments of painted plaster have been recovered from Roman buildings excavated in Britain during the past 200 years or so. They are preserved in museum collections, and many of the pieces have been drawn or photographed, and described in some detail in the accounts of excavation. Useful summaries of many of these discoveries have been given by Lethaby, Liversidge, Toynbee and others, the first mentioned, however, dealing specifically with material found in London.

Type
Research Article
Information
Britannia , Volume 3 , November 1972 , pp. 251 - 268
Copyright
Copyright © Norman Davey 1972. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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