Sanctuary of Mercury Canetonnessis
Creators: J. Kunow, C. Haselgrove
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49.179131, 0.620882
- Central Point:
- Imagery Location of Sanctuary Centerpoint (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Berthouville (French, modern)
- Less than certain: Canetonum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Villeret (French, modern)
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sanctuary (religious center)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 11 A3 Canetonum
The god's epithet, attested only on inscribed objects discovered at the site, presumably refers either to the sanctuary site itself or to a nearby, associated settlement (Canetonum). The excavators placed the settlement to the immediate northwest of the sanctuary, where they found a hypocaust and various "substructures" across a large area, but Thierry 2005 echoes twentieth-century scholars who think the site was a relatively isolated, extra-urban sanctuary without a large, attached settlement. Thierry also notes, based on the resistivity survey, that the sanctuary may have overlain an earlier, Iron Age site of as-yet-undetermined type.
J. Kunow, C. Haselgrove, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Brian Turner, Sean Gillies, and Gabriel Moss, 'Sanctuary of Mercury Canetonnessis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/108852> [accessed: 08 October 2024]
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