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- ↑ Frere, S.S., and St Joseph, J.K.S. 1983: Roman Britain from the Air, Cambridge
- ↑ Henderson, A., & Keppie, L. (1987). Titulus or Titulum? Britannia, 18, 281-284. doi:10.2307/526456 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/titulus-or-titulum/13A9CBB2B58D94A2249150F1838466C9#, referring to Schulten, A., Numantia: die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen 1905–1919 (München, 1914–1931) Band IV. pl. 1: Keppie, L., The Making of the Roman Army (London, 1984), fig. 12.
- ↑ John H. Reid and Andrew Nicholson (2019). "Burnswark Hill: the opening shot of the Antonine reconquest of Scotland?" (PDF). Journal of Roman Archaeology. p. 476-477.
- ↑ "titulum". Oxford Reference.
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