Lydney Park
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[edit] Gardens
Lydney Park is located in Gloucestershire in southwest England.
[edit] Ruins
A Roman settlement was built upon an earlier Iron Age settlement, and Scowles, which are open-cast iron mines, and tunnels exist throughout the hill. There is a legend that after about 20 years of the Romans leaving, the indigenous peoples forgot the Romans had settled there and began to believe the ruins were home to dwarves, hobgoblins and little people.[1]
The site was excavated by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in the 1920s and was home to a temple (and healing shrine) to Nodens, a Celtic divinity who is reflected by the later figures of Nuada and Nudd in Irish and Welsh mythology respectively.
[edit] References
- ^ Website Editorial Staff (unclear). Tolkien's tales from Lydney Park. British Broadcast Corporation. Retrieved on 2006-03-13.
- Wheeler, R.E.M. & T.V. (1932) Report on the excavation of the prehistoric, Roman and post-Roman site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire. Oxford.
