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A Possible Mid-Fourth-Century Altar Platform at Marcham/Frilford, Oxfordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Peter Warry
Peter Warry*
Affiliation:
Cheltenham, Gloucestershirepeter.warry@merton.oxon.org
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Abstract

Marcham/Frilford is a large religious site with a temple, an amphitheatre and a central shrine feature. Adjacent to the shrine is a large fourth-century structure containing a significant deposit of coins, hobnails and bones. The absence of diffusion of the tiles from the temple roof to the wider site suggests that it continued to function as a religious complex throughout the Roman period; therefore the large structure is unlikely to have been a building which would have blighted the shrine but was more probably an altar platform where rituals were performed in conjunction with it.

Keywords

Marcham/FrilfordRoman religious sitealtar platformritualshrinetegulae
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Britannia , Volume 46 , November 2015 , pp. 273 - 279
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 

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