Primus Pilus Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 Archaeologists have found traces of a Roman settlement at a 5,000-year-old landmark man-made hill in Wiltshire. English Heritage believes there was a Roman community at Silbury Hill about 2,000 years ago. The 130ft Neolithic mound near Avebury - one of Europe's largest prehistoric monuments - is thought to have been created some 3,000 years earlier. Experts carrying out a project to stabilise the hill say the site may have been a sacred place of pilgrimage... BBC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 Perhaps the Romans built their village there to take advantage of the lucre to be obtained from pilgrims. But the monument lasted for 3,000 years from building to Romans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursus Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 Interesting in that it seems to have functioned as a stopover on the way to the temple-spa of Bath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DecimusCaesar Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 It sounds as if it's a relativly large settlement. It seems to me that quite a few spots in England became religious pilgrimage sites. I think that Romans even went on pilgrimages to Canterbury, many centuries before it became a popular pilgrimage site in Medieval times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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