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nigelswift wrote:
Sacred wells? Medieval cathedrals?
Both cases have different historical trajectories in relation to healing i.e. one was a natural healing centre that became religious and the other was a built religious centre with healing as a alter minor adjucnt .

Darvill and Wainwright make different claims for Stonehenge that they don't apply to other similar monuments i.e. a purpose built healing centre , when the expectation of something like a cathedral would be more acceptable even if the healed belonged to a later period .

Keeping with the idea of humans constantly doing very human things, it's not unusual for a later generation to surround an original tasteful shrine with a garish outer ring of excessive proportions
http://www.roman-britain.org/places/images/aquae_sulis.jpg