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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2011
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73 See Guy, op. cit. (note 71), table 1 for a summary of sizes of tanks discovered up to 1989.
74 See Watts, op. cit. (note 72), figs 23 (d), (f), 24 (a–e).
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81 e.g. Isidore, Etymologiae 1.3.7. See Watts, op. cit. (note 72), 177 and notes.
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88 e.g. E. Diehl, Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres 1 (1925), no. 841 (A.D. 584).
89 The monogram is used only as a symbol in these examples.
90 See Watts, op. cit. (note 72), 151; 245, n. 9.
91 Now RIB (Vol. 11) 2417.41.
92 G. Clarke, Pre-Roman and Roman Winchester Part II: The Roman Cemetery at Lankhills (1979), 430; fig. 82.256.
93 Watts, op. cit. (note 72), passim.
94 ibid., 163–6.
95 H. Child and D. Colles, Christian Symbols (1971), 27.
96 See Watts, op. cit. (note 72), 169, for the main theories, and for further details of the argument presented in this present paper.
97 V.C.H. Notts. II (1970), 11–15.
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101 Watts, op. cit. (note 72), ch. 111 et passim.
102 This item is now in the British Museum.
103 Guy, op. cit. (note 69), 275.
104 Watts, op. cit. (note 72), 221–7.
105 My thanks are extended to The University of Queensland and the Australian Research Council for funding this research, to Mr Michael Jones and the City of Lincoln Archaeology Unit for organising and supplying the drawing and photograph, and to Newark Museum for permission to publish the object.
