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Recent aerial photographs of Pen y Gaer have revealed significant new details about the fort and its extramural adjuncts. These provide a springboard for examining the wider implications for extramural activity outside other forts across Wales and the Marches, and for exploring the function and chronology of potentially official buildings within the wider landscape of communications and control. Such an approach invites comparison with other frontier regions.

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A small group of altars to the Lares Augusti, set up by the vicomagistri of Rome’s urban neighbourhoods in the Augustan period, provides examples of imperial imagery produced by patrons of low social status. Their decoration shows the early effects of new Augustan motifs, but they are not merely examples of imagery trickling down from an original, central prototype. The patrons of these altars adapted and even invented images to express their relationship with the princeps for a local audience, and for viewers the altars were themselves sources of imagery, no less ‘official’ than any other source.

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Forts, Vici and Related Extramural Activity in Wales and the Marches: Recent Discoveries at the Roman Fort of Pen y Gaer (Powys) and their Wider Implications

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Forts, Vici and Related Extramural Activity in Wales and the Marches: Recent Discoveries at the Roman Fort of Pen y Gaer (Powys) and their Wider Implications

2 - The Altars of the Lares Augusti

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