Re: church mound | Forum — The Modern Antiquarian

St. Peter’s Church, Farnborough 1

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church mound

FourWinds Sep 6, 2003 12:01:23

Replying to Earthstepper

"Germanic tribes worshipped in forest groves rather than built temples according to Agricola and Caesar."

If you read Claudius they also had underground temples - two of the German Legion Eagles were recovered from such a site.

"Whole lot of archaeology under churches that we just can't get at. Would TMA consider finding and mapping churches on ancient mounds?"

There are already a few on TMA. I think you'd have to have a very good provenance to pass the scrutiny of some folks on here.

baza Sep 6, 2003 17:55:31

Replying to FourWinds

I don`t think that St. Peter's Church, Farnborough, should be on TMA.

It`s a church!

Okay, it`s on a mound. So what?

The only type of prehistoric, circular mound that I know of, in England, which can sometimes be found on the top of a hill, are round barrows.

How big is the base of the mound? It looks too big to be the remains of a round barrow, to my eyes.

Then there are the sarsen stones, apparently in the church, around the church and nearby to the church. That just says to me that there`s a lot of sarsen stones in the area which have not been utilised by prehistoric man or anyone since.

There doesn`t seem to be any evidence that it`s a prehistoric site. However, it *is* a church.

The Devil`s Hoofprint shouldn`t be on here, either. This is a site dedicated to prehistoric remains. Does anyone claim that the Devil`s Hoofprint is of prehistoric origin?

I don`t see any problem with discussing these unusual phenomena in the forum, but the site listings should remain true to the ethos of TMA.

Just my opinion. :o)

baz