Excerpt from 'Later Roman Britain' by Stephen Johnson, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1980:
"The almost overnight transformation of Christianity into an accepted state religion, and its acceptance among the pantheon of Roman religions to be paid lip-service by men anxious to promote their careers, did not immediately give victory in the church's great battle with paganism. There is evidence within Britain for a resurgence of interest in the old pagan Celtic cults of the countryside. A number of Romano-Celtic shrines, many of them established in the ancient places hallowed as the haunts of Celtic forebears, the Iron Age hill-forts, were rebuilt or built new in the fourth century, and, to judge from the quality and quantity of the offerings deposited at their sites, they had a rich and devoted following.
One of the most complex of such sites was the temple of Nodens at Lydney, where the cult centre incorporated an elaborate guest house and several temples. Others were established at or near well known hill-forts like Maiden Castle, Jordan's Hill, and Uleybury Hill. The style of such temples owes little to Roman architecture as such. As tall rectangular buildings surrounded by a verandah, they were a distinctively different type of building within the Roman landscape. Such cult ritual as there was would have had to take place in the open air within the temple-complex - an altogether different style of worship from the secretive mystic cults of the east or the larger temple-cults of Graeco-Roman theism."
Later in the same book Johnson writes about the mosaic floor at Lydney temple:
"A connection between the Bristol Channel and a Roman fleet is suggested by a pavement from the great temple complex at Lydney dedicated by a man whose official title was shortened to PR.REL, which is interpreted as praefectus reliquationis Classis ('in charge of the fleet's supply depot'). Such a base probably lay nearby."
Here are a couple of websites mentioning the Roman use of a harbour at Lydney:
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/riversevern/lydney.html
http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=797
When staying near Weston-super-Mare we visited Uphill, a small port which had also been used by the Romans. It lies at the mouth of the River Axe, on the southern side of the River Severn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uphill
If you get the chance, take a look at the ancient church of St Nicholas on the hill overlooking the area, and with stunning views towards Brean Down.
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