A Possible Mid-Fourth-Century Altar Platform at Marcham/Frilford, Oxfordshire. (14th July 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Warry, Peter
• Is Part Of: Britannia. Volume 46(2015)
• Page Start: 273
• Page End: 279
• Publication Date: 2015-07-14
• Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman -- Periodicals; Romans -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 936.10305
• DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X14000567
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0068-113X

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="normal"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>Marcham/Frilford is a large religious site with a temple, an amphitheatre and a central shrine feature. Adjacent to the shrine is a large fourth-century structure containing a significant deposit of coins, hobnails and bones. The absence of diffusion of the tiles from the temple roof to the wider site suggests that it continued to function as a religious complex throughout the Roman period; therefore the large structure is unlikely to have been a building which would have blighted the shrine but was more probably an altar platform where rituals were performed in conjunction with it.</p> </abstract>