Here's another view.
Beatrice Hopkinson
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>Perhaps the reason for octagonal buildings is that there is no dark corner
>for the devil to hide in.
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> From: stephen buckley
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> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 9:36 AM
> Subject: Re: Fish in wells and cisterns
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> They'd be particularly handy, wouldn't they, in a monastic context, for
>the days when the religious could only eat fish?
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> On the subject of religious contexts: the latest Current Archaeology
>(237) has a piece on an octagonal plunge bath at Bax Farm, Kent, from the
>late Roman period, which might have served as a baptistery. It was in a
>building with painted plaster. On a visit to Chedworth this summer, I
>realized that the pool that collected the water supply there is octagonal.
>I've read explanations of why fonts and baptismal pools are octagonal, but
>haven't come across any reason why pre-Christian spring housings might be
>the same shape - might, I suppose, be practical, though why not make them
>square? Any ideas or mythology?
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> In CA 237, there's also a major piece on the bluestone henge that seems
>to have stood by the River Avon at the end of an avenue from Stonehenge. A
>short avenue also links the settlement at Durrington Walls with the river,
>and the discovery seems to support the idea that there was a ritual way
>from Durrington Walls to Stonehenge via the river. The traces of stone at
>the newly discovered henge appear to match the Stonehenge bluestone.
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> Christine B
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> Message Received: Nov 20 2009, 08:24 AM
> From: "James Rattue"
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> Subject: Re: Fish in wells and cisterns
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> When I visited the wonderful wells at San Gimignano they were full of
>fish.
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Beatrice Hopkinson,
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Board Member, Archaeological Institute of America
President, Droitwich Brine Springs and Archaeological Trust
Affilliate, Cotsen institute of Archaeology, UCLA
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