As far as I can see Morris doesn't mention any very specific evidence for
preChristian wells being 'converted' apart from general comments about Bath
and Wells. I think you can make a fair case for a number of wells having
some preChristian significance (the newst to me being St Anne's Well at
Chertsey, near a medieval chapel site within an Iron Age hillfort), but it's
usually on the basis of topography, placenames, and other rather speculative
stuff rather than archaeology. Not that such evidence should be brushed
aside, just recognised for what it is.
James
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From: "Madeleine Gray" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Pre-christian 'evidence' (Was: Bridge Over Troubled Waters; Was
Typology Holy Wells)
I think there are a couple of others in Richard Morris, Churches in the
Landscape, but can't lay my hands on a copy just now
Maddy
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