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SCALE<br />

0<br />

50 100m<br />

from the huns to the avars 719<br />

Fig. 23 Tsaricin Grad (Justiniana Prima). (After Bavant in Villes et peuplement.) For a different<br />

reconstruction <strong>of</strong> the walled circuit, see Fig. 41, p.922 below<br />

Chersonese, were not intended by themselves to prevent the movement <strong>of</strong><br />

invaders but to shelter the local population and ensure that when danger<br />

passed there were people who could return to the cultivation <strong>of</strong> the surrounding<br />

country. Only significant garrison troops, or a mobile army,<br />

could oppose roving war-bands directly, whereas for a city to commit its<br />

limited local resources outside its defences might court disaster, as at<br />

Topirus, which was captured by Slavs after its armed men had been lured<br />

from the walls and killed. 62<br />

62 Procop. Wars vii.38.<br />

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