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the general picture 353<br />

Fig. 13 A group <strong>of</strong> stone houses in the late antique Syrian village <strong>of</strong> Déhès. (From Sodini et al.(1980)<br />

181, fig. 243)<br />

by the presence <strong>of</strong> numerous copper coins, even on rural sites (see Fig. 14). 10<br />

In c. a.d. 500 the contrast between the economies <strong>of</strong> the Near East and<br />

Britain was enormous, and much more marked than it had been in c. 350.<br />

Since the fourth century two things had occurred: the economy <strong>of</strong> Britain<br />

10 See, for example, the finds <strong>of</strong> pottery and coin from the village-site <strong>of</strong> Déhès: Sodini et al.(1980)<br />

234–87; Orssaud (1992). Or from the town-site <strong>of</strong> Pella: Walmsley (1988) 152–5; Watson (1992).<br />

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