mandrake wrote:
> Interesting though - that RH "debunks" the neo-pagan view that
> churches were built on pre-existing pagan sites
> (as indeed they were in the classical world) - whereas for example
> practitioner/scholar Jan Fries talks about the ephemeral nature
> of Germano/Celtic pagans sites that may not
> show up in the archeaological record.
I'm presently researching pardons in the geographical and spiritual
landscape of Southern Brittany. At the Troménie in Locronan 'chapels'
are made from withies stuck into the ground and then covered with a
sheet. Cultic objects of various saints are sheltered by these chapels.
In the archaeological record traces of this wouldn't even show up as
post holes. Until the nineteen-seventies these wouldn't really have been
visible to archaeologists, both because of the excavation techniques and
because of the bias in designing excavations.
All the best
Chris
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