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This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407389790 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407389806 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860544906 (Volume set).

This volume is part of a three volume set: ISBN 9781407392103 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407392110 (Volume II); ISBN 9781407392127 (Volume III); ISBN 9780860541912 (Volume set).

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407390895 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407390901 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860541837 (Volume set).

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407390895 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407390901 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860541837 (Volume set).

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407390932 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407390949 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860542025 (Volume set).

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407356525 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407356532 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860543770 (Volume set).

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407390932 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407390949 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860542025 (Volume set).

These volumes examine what is known about the development of religion in the area of the Severn Valley and the adjacent hills from the late Bronze Age to the foundation of the minsters in the early medieval period. Roman sources attribute the area to the tribal group the Dobunni while in the 'Anglo-Saxon' period it is attributed to the Hwicce. The relationship and possible commonality between the two peoples and their territory will be explored here, together with any relationship which may appertain between religious sites and the natural world (topography, geology, and hydrology). New types of religious site will be encountered and defined and an attempt made to associate these both with nature and with social actions. The second part of the survey is concerned with the association of religion, community, and territory, and consequently deals with the ways in which these aspects were interrelated. A framework is proposed for explaining the long term development of communities in the region from late prehistory into the historical period. An important discovery has been the identification of a goddess associated with a sacred vessel, shown in a number of Roman reliefs, who seems to be a territorial deity directly associated with the Dobunni. Aspects of her cult can be recognised in the Iron Age and even in the early medieval periods. It is apparent on so many levels that there was no opposition between the deification of the natural world and the use of deities as representations of community, but that they were in reality two aspects of the same paradigm. The divinities of the pre-Christian religion, in the region, were not expunged at once with the advent of Christianity, but continue to survive in genealogies, folk-tradition, and myth. The strong implication of my thesis is that the Dobunni and the Hwicce are in fact the same people. This volume is part of a three volume set: ISBN 9781407359373 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407359380 (Volume II); ISBN 9781407359397 (Volume III); ISBN 9781841717456 (Volume set).

These volumes examine what is known about the development of religion in the area of the Severn Valley and the adjacent hills from the late Bronze Age to the foundation of the minsters in the early medieval period. Roman sources attribute the area to the tribal group the Dobunni while in the 'Anglo-Saxon' period it is attributed to the Hwicce. The relationship and possible commonality between the two peoples and their territory will be explored here, together with any relationship which may appertain between religious sites and the natural world (topography, geology, and hydrology). New types of religious site will be encountered and defined and an attempt made to associate these both with nature and with social actions. The second part of the survey is concerned with the association of religion, community, and territory, and consequently deals with the ways in which these aspects were interrelated. A framework is proposed for explaining the long term development of communities in the region from late prehistory into the historical period. An important discovery has been the identification of a goddess associated with a sacred vessel, shown in a number of Roman reliefs, who seems to be a territorial deity directly associated with the Dobunni. Aspects of her cult can be recognised in the Iron Age and even in the early medieval periods. It is apparent on so many levels that there was no opposition between the deification of the natural world and the use of deities as representations of community, but that they were in reality two aspects of the same paradigm. The divinities of the pre-Christian religion, in the region, were not expunged at once with the advent of Christianity, but continue to survive in genealogies, folk-tradition, and myth. The strong implication of my thesis is that the Dobunni and the Hwicce are in fact the same people. This volume is part of a three volume set: ISBN 9781407359373 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407359380 (Volume II); ISBN 9781407359397 (Volume III); ISBN 9781841717456 (Volume set).

These volumes examine what is known about the development of religion in the area of the Severn Valley and the adjacent hills from the late Bronze Age to the foundation of the minsters in the early medieval period. Roman sources attribute the area to the tribal group the Dobunni while in the 'Anglo-Saxon' period it is attributed to the Hwicce. The relationship and possible commonality between the two peoples and their territory will be explored here, together with any relationship which may appertain between religious sites and the natural world (topography, geology, and hydrology). New types of religious site will be encountered and defined and an attempt made to associate these both with nature and with social actions. The second part of the survey is concerned with the association of religion, community, and territory, and consequently deals with the ways in which these aspects were interrelated. A framework is proposed for explaining the long term development of communities in the region from late prehistory into the historical period. An important discovery has been the identification of a goddess associated with a sacred vessel, shown in a number of Roman reliefs, who seems to be a territorial deity directly associated with the Dobunni. Aspects of her cult can be recognised in the Iron Age and even in the early medieval periods. It is apparent on so many levels that there was no opposition between the deification of the natural world and the use of deities as representations of community, but that they were in reality two aspects of the same paradigm. The divinities of the pre-Christian religion, in the region, were not expunged at once with the advent of Christianity, but continue to survive in genealogies, folk-tradition, and myth. The strong implication of my thesis is that the Dobunni and the Hwicce are in fact the same people. This volume is part of a three volume set: ISBN 9781407359373 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407359380 (Volume II); ISBN 9781407359397 (Volume III); ISBN 9781841717456 (Volume set).

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407356525 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407356532 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860543770 (Volume set).

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407389295 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407389301 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860540649 (Volume set).

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407389295 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407389301 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860540649 (Volume set).

With particular reference to Channel-rim Jars

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407389431 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407389448 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860540939 (Volume set).

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407389431 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407389448 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860540939 (Volume set).

The Vale of the White Horse is situated in north Wiltshire and south Oxfordshire between the chalk uplands of the Berkshire Downs and the ridge of Corallian sands that border the Upper Thames. Its name derives from the stylised outline of a horse.

The site is situated at the bottom of Melyd A venue, Prestatyn on a gentle southern slope extending down from the 15 m contour (NGR SJ 062817). Chester (DEV A) líes 39 km to the east and Caerhun (KANOVIUM) 28 km to the west.