Site of an Iron Age settlement & sacred enclosure which became a major religious complex in early Roman period with a Romano-Celtic temple & temenos.

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Site of an Iron Age settlement and sacred enclosure which became a major religious complex in the early Roman period with a Romano-Celtic temple inside a temenos (sacred precinct) used as a periodic 'fairground'. The double-doored gateway of the enclosure faced eastwards to the rising sun. View E, 6-20am, April 1995, with silhouette of bare ash tree on the boundary between Middle Hill (L) & South Hill (R) fields. Middle Hill has been ploughed and sown.

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Size: 4961px × 3711px
Location: Woodeaton Romano-Celtic Temple Site, Islip, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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