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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | The dowsing plan of my movements tracing the ritual route of people using the Romano-British Temple at Maiden Castle in its hey-day.
You'll see how it culminates with a circuit of the 'oval house' shape above the temple, ending with a swirl in its interior.
(Each section of movement is numbered, starting with '1', in red, entering the opening in Temple wall.)
No.5 seems to address something on the west wall (a God/Goddess statue, maybe?), though movement [anticlockwise turning] is maintained in the same line, unlike at '7' and '8', where I'm taken in a loop to the northern wall where something else diverts the action.
(This adjoins the 'priest's house', so maybe it is an internal doorway??) After entering the inner section and executing clockwise turns, '16', I headed straight outside, but my rods took me up the slope '17', in a 240 deg direction to the 'oval' shape.)
I'd be thrilled to find this WAS the position of the oval 'shrine'!
On a previous visit to Maiden Castle I'd dowsed an intricate petal-shaped set of movements on the highest part of ground a few yards to the SW from here. |
| Posted Comments: AngieLake
(2008-07-04) | See photo of site posted today (3 July) showing the position from this angle. ('Oval house' marked by dowsing rod in foreground of that pic.) | AngieLake
(2008-08-18) | I've found a drawing of the excavation findings of the Oval Roman Shrine which I'm posting separately. It shows the orientation [which agrees with the entrance position being at the East, as above] but frustratingly, doesn't say exactly where it was sited in relation to the Temple! | AngieLake
(2008-08-18) | Looking again at the site noticeboard on my camcorder film: "The temple consisted of a central room, surrounded by a passage called an ambulatory, with a portico open to the weather. Close to the temple was an oval hut, thought to have functioned as a shrine. This was built directly over an Iron Age hut, and may show continued use of an earlier ritual building. The two-roomed building to the R [N] is believed to have been a priest's house."
(See drawing of oval hut from Evan Hadingham's 1978 book 'Circles & Standing Stones', posted here today.) | AngieLake
(2008-08-18) | "Around 350 - when Christianity was the official Roman religion - a circular pagan temple was built, in stone, within the foundations of an Iron Age timber shrine. A little later a Romano-Celtic temple was built just to the north-east." | AngieLake
(2008-08-18) | [From Mick Sharp's book 'Holy Places of Celtic Britain', 1997, Blandford, a Cassel Imprint.] | AngieLake
(2009-01-05) | Jim C - Guess what just came up on random image?! | JimChampion
(2009-01-06) | Well I never! I do like random image. | AngieLake
(2009-11-21) | See 1.3.5 on page 8 of this link for description of layout on similar site excavated by Time Team. (This might explain the diversions at 5 and 7, as well as 15, and 16.):http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/files/68735_Friars_Wash_Redbourn.pdf | AngieLake
(2011-11-15) | Ha! This is topical (from the dowsing point of view) .. on random image again. ;-) |
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