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Templum @templum.wiki · 14/08/2026

A bit funny, but it appears some one has left a Deipnon offering to Hekate on a cross-roads in my local park! Which is causing a bit of confusion and argument on the local facebook page

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Templum @templum.wiki · 14/08/2026

We also see deposits of pig heads alongside their hoofs, feacinge ast to the shrine, and with a coin placed on the skull! That must have made dating convenient.

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Templum @templum.wiki · 14/08/2026

Inside the shrine, the proposed altar was actually off center, in the south east corner

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Templum @templum.wiki · 14/08/2026

Some very interesting features here, the shrine itself is tiny compared to the barrow

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Templum @templum.wiki · 12/08/2026

These kind of public use BBQ grills are quite common in other countries. Seems that if people are going to BBQ it would be worth while providing infrastructure that makes it safer.

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Templum @templum.wiki · 04/07/2026

View from the North Downs Way towards the site of a Romano-Celtic temple just east of Titsey village

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Templum @templum.wiki · 30/06/2026

Fellow ramblers, what do you do when you come to path like this? A closed gate, a very private looking drive way, passing right past the garden furniture! I don't like the idea of being mauled by a jack russell while I'm halfway over the gate

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Templum @templum.wiki · 16/06/2026

Does anyone else have absolutely no luck with inter library loans through your local library? It feels like there's no point even trying anymore

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Templum @templum.wiki · 14/04/2026

Haunting spot none the less, especially in winter. The Roman material sticks out like a sore thumb and the ferns seems to grow better on that compared to the medieval material

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Templum @templum.wiki · 11/04/2026

I didn't realise there were *two* still standing Romano Celtic fellas, I was only aware of the Temple de Janus in Autun

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Templum @templum.wiki · 25/03/2026

A view facing where the temple stood as it is today, and Pegler's Tump which is just in the field on the opposite of the modern and roman road.

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Templum @templum.wiki · 20/03/2026

For day-to-day use? Or for sacrifices? Or both? Handled paterae appear on quite a few altars alongside knives and jugs, I can find a number of good examples just browsing the RIB; 1079, 1124, 3285, 1684, 1081, and probably many more...

Photograph by Museum of Antiquities of a Roman altar (RIB 3285), one side has an inscription to Minerva, another a handled jug, a third a long handled patera like in the original post

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Templum @templum.wiki · 23/02/2026

Although it was built almost 300 years earlier (around 262), the temple at Pagans Hill, Somerset has a very similar layout and dimensions to the Basilica of San Vitale. Both are octagonal, east facing, an outer ambulatory with vaulted ceilings, and and inner cella defined by arched piers.

Site Plan of the Pagans Hill site, Pagans Hill Revisited (1989)

Reconstruction of Pagans Hill Temple, Rodwell (1980)

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Templum @templum.wiki · 12/02/2026

There is a large 3-sided ditch on the lidar, OS maps identify it as a moat. Looks like two of the sides are about 20m? If that were a temple it would be on the larger size the one at Roman Caistor is 20m x 20m and that's larger than average. Perhaps larger than you'd expect for a minor settlement.

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Templum @templum.wiki · 06/02/2026

The busts always looked like they have wings to me! Also not to be some kind of conspiracy theorist, but last time I went to see this I couldn't find the third horn. Which sounds like bad joke, but it is at an awkward angle and the lighting doesn't help.

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Templum @templum.wiki · 07/01/2026

Kermit has finally been displaced as the top English Carnyx!

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Templum @templum.wiki · 09/10/2025

Well that's a new one for the map! templum.wiki/item.html?id...

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Templum @templum.wiki · 19/09/2025

I've always wondered what these might have been mounted on? The spear-head/rattle from West Stow always looks to me like it would be a perfect fit

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Templum @templum.wiki · 01/06/2025

There's ofcourse that Asclepius at Church of St Giles, Tockenham, Wiltshire (image from this blog theheritagetrust.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/o...)

Apparently an image of asclepius in the south wall of a church

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Templum @templum.wiki · 04/05/2025

The Romans leading g the green man and lady to the wicker man followed by carnyx and drummers

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Templum @templum.wiki · 03/05/2025

Wicker man at Butser farm ready to go for tonight,just need a volunteer to get in now

A wicker man dressed up like a gladiator

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Templum @templum.wiki · 01/05/2025

Another building that looks oddly like a Romano-Celtic Temple outside a premier Inn

A square building with a 'cella' tower and closed 'ambulatory' outside a Premier Inn

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Templum @templum.wiki · 27/04/2025

I often think the same about supermarkets with clock towers

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Templum @templum.wiki · 08/04/2025

Look what the postman brought! A new book by @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social

Pre-Christian Baltic Religion and Belief, by Francis Young

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Templum @templum.wiki · 29/01/2025

Happy Year of the Snake! Here's some crested serpents from Roman Britain, first a bronze figure from the temple at Caerwent, second the Durngate Street mosaic from Dorchester, and last the Roman serpent stone from Maryport!

Bronze crested serpent-head ornament found in the romano-celtic temple at Caerwent

A crested serpent from the 4th CE Durngate street mosaic, Dorchester

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Templum @templum.wiki · 28/01/2025

Sorry, mis-cropped some of the text

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Templum @templum.wiki · 28/01/2025

The version of that text I can find on Internet Archive has some different wording, but gives a source in the Bulletin Monumental Vol. vi Bulletin Monumental: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc... Internet Archive: archive.org/details/shak...

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Templum @templum.wiki · 01/12/2024

It's a good question, I've never seen a satisfying answer beyond it, just being the style.

Votive plaques, figurine, and jewellery from the Ashwell End temple site.

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Templum @templum.wiki · 26/11/2024

A Roman ring reported to the PAS in 2023 found in Nettleham, thought to depict Socrates (tinyurl.com/2zhwfhzj)

A slightly squashed Roman gold finger ring depicting a side on balding older man, thought to represent Socrates

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Templum @templum.wiki · 15/11/2024

A similar thought struck me when the Vindolanda trust shared this art for rwmemberence day

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