Blair, J. (1995). Anglo-Saxon pagan shrines and their prototypes. Anglo-Saxon Stud Archaeol Hist 8. Vol 8, pp. 1-28.
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Anglo-Saxon pagan shrines and their prototypes | |||||||||||||||||
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Anglo-Saxon Stud Archaeol Hist 8 | |||||||||||||||||
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Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History | |||||||||||||||||
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8 | |||||||||||||||||
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1 - 28 | |||||||||||||||||
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The article considers the evidence for structural shrines associated with English pagan cults. It is argued that the structures at Yeavering reflect a long tradition of square ritual enclosures, stemming from Romano-Celtic shrines and enclosed burials and perhaps reinforced by the survival of Roman stone temples of square-in-square plan. The form is traced through a sequence of square-ditched enclosures from Iron Age to possibly early Anglo-Saxon date, the more important of which were built over Bronze Age barrows. The author argues that these were prototypes for the square enclosures with timber-laced earthen walls at Slonk Hill, Sussex, and at Yeavering, which in turn suggest a cultural context for the large timber shrine at Blacklow Hill, Warwickshire, and for smaller, possibly ritual structures on some domestic sites. Within the enclosures, focal standing posts appear to have been used for aligning graves. The tradition is discussed in terms of the influences from British to English ritual practice and the social and cultural transformations in progress c. AD 600. Includes | |||||||||||||||||
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1995 | |||||||||||||||||
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0 947816 95 X | |||||||||||||||||
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11 Aug 2005 |
