Roman Milton Keynes: Excavations and Fieldwork 1971-82

Williams, John H.; Zeepvat, Robert; Williams, R. J.; Mynard, D. C.

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“…Outside the shrine was another skeleton that was probably contemporary with it, of a butchered adult female goat. 62 These specific deposits of probably sacrificed animals are the only faunal remains that can be clearly linked with the circular shrine. This is because the animal bone report has grouped the bones from both this shrine and the temple-mausoleum together, despite their different phasing.…”

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Animal Remains from Temples in Roman Britain

King¹

2005

Britannia

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Approximately twenty temple excavations have yielded significant assemblages of animal bones. All come from Romano-Celtic temples in southern Britain, with the exception of four shrines for eastern cults. This paper picks out major characteristics of the assemblages and draws some general conclusions about the nature of the ritual activity that led to their deposition. At temples such as Uley or Hayling, sacrifices were probably an important part of the rituals, and the animals carefully selected. At other temples, animals had a lesser role, with little evidence of selection. At healing shrines, such as Bath and Lydney, animal sacrifices are not clearly attested, and would probably have taken place away from the areas used for healing humans. In contrast to the Romano-Celtic temples, animal remains at the shrines of eastern cults have very different characteristics: individual deposits can be linked to specific rituals within the cult buildings, and have many similarities to the continental evidence

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Section: Bancroft Buckinghamshirementioning

confidence: 99%

Animal Remains from Temples in Roman Britain

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2005

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Roman Milton Keynes: Excavations and Fieldwork 1971-82

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Animal Remains from Temples in Roman Britain

Animal Remains from Temples in Roman Britain

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