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ANCIENT AUTHORITIES.-The principal references to early Britain in classical writers occur in Strabo, Diodorus, Julius Caesar, the elder Pliny, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Cassius Dio and Ammianus Marcellinus, and in the lists of the Antonine Itinerary (probably about A.D. 210-230; ed. Parthey, 1848) , the Notitia Dignitatum (about A.D. 400 ; ed. Seeck, 1876) , and the Ravennas (7th century rechau,je; ed. Parthey 186o) . The chief passages are printed in Petrie's Monumenta Hist. Britann. (1848), and (alphabetically) in Holder's Altceltischer Sprachschatz (1896-1908) . The Roman inscriptions have been collected in Corpus Inscriptionum Latin. vii. (1873), and in the periodical Ephemeris epigraphica (iii., iv., vii. and particularly ix.) .

BIBLIOGRAPHY.-(a) For Pre-Roman Britain: T. R. Holmes,

AnBibliography.-(a) For Pre-Roman Britain: T. R. Holmes, An- cient Britain (1907) , who cites numerous authorities; R. E. M. Wheeler, Prehistoric and Roman Wales (1925) ; Sir Arthur Keith, The Antiquity of Man (1925) ; D. A. E. Garrod, The Upper Palaeolithic Age in Britain (1926).

(b) For late Celtic art: J. M. Kemble and A. W. Franks,

Horae Ferales (1863) ; Arthur J. Evans in Archaeologia, vols. lii., (c) For Roman Britain see, in general, Prof. F. Haverfield, The Romanization of Roman Britain (1923), The Roman Occupation of Britain (1924) , the latter containing a bibliography of the author's own writings, as well as references to all earlier works of importance; Archaeologia, and the Excavation Reports of the Society of An tiquaries of London; Journal of Roman Studies, which prints an annual survey of Romano-British research, with list of new books and articles; Arch. Aeliana and Trans. of the Cumberland and Westmor land Antiq. Soc., both indispensable for Hadrian's Wall and its forts; Arch. Cambrensis and the Cymmrodorim Society's publications, for reports on Welsh excavations ; for Scotland, see CALEDONIA ; see also, for all three countries, the reports of the respective Royal Commis sions on Ancient and Historical Monuments. (F. J. H.; G. M.)

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