'The Guardian' newspaper reported today some preliminary results from trial
excavations and geophysical surveys of a site near Swindon, discovered a
couple of years ago. The complex of Roman buildings appears to have included
a temple; fine mosaic, fresco fragments and a silver bowl have so far been
found. 'Nothing remains above ground of its shrines, but green boggy patches
in the field mark springs that still well up 1,600 years after the temple
disappeared. . . . At the centre there was probably a fountain shrine to a
water nymph.' Excavations are due to continue this year. I have tried and
failed to find anything about it on the Net (or is it the Web -- I'm still a
technophobe at heart).
The entire hillside also retains Roman terracing: 'a far rarer survival than
the temple'.
Christine Buckley
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