medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Christopher,
I dug through my notes, and came across a xerox of an article
referred to in Ralph Merrifield, The Archaeology of Ritual and
Magic, which refers to "funerary wells", which were apparently in
use from the Iron Age in France right through the Gallo-Roman
period, up to the second half of the 4th century. This was
apparently a pagan practice that stopped with the coming of
Christianity. For a highly archaeological description of two such
funerary wells (I'm not actually sure that they were wells per se or
merely deep shafts), see Georges Fouet, "Puits funeraires
d'Aquitaine: Vieille-Toulouse, Montmaurin," Gallia, vol. XVI (1958),
115-96.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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