This Romano-Celtic temple lies southeast of St James's Church at Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk, situated within or adjacent to the civitas capital of Venta Icenorum. Likely constructed in the later 1st or 2nd century AD and active into the 4th century, it would have been a modest square cella with surrounding ambulatory typical of the genre, serving the religious needs of the urban and surrounding rural population.
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As part of the religious topography of Venta Icenorum, the tribal capital of the Iceni, the temple represents the syncretism of native Icenian cult practice with Roman architectural form, an important indicator of post-Boudican integration into the provincial system.
Aerial photography and geophysical survey at Caistor St Edmund have revealed at least two Romano-Celtic temple structures within the walled town, with the southern temple precinct identified through cropmarks showing the characteristic concentric square plan; little formal excavation of this specific structure has been published, with most knowledge derived from Donald Atkinson's earlier work and the more recent Caistor Roman Project surveys.
This Romano-Celtic temple lies southeast of St James's Church at Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk, situated within or adjacent to the civitas capital of Venta Icenorum. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a temple site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-Celtic temple 590m south east of St James's Church is classified as a Roman temple — a religious site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Roman villa W of Woodrising Wood (11.4 km), Venta Icenorum: Roman town and associated prehistoric, Anglo-Saxon and medieval remains (14 km), Venta (14.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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