This page groups sacred sites by whether UNESCO has formally recognized them. Wikipedia notes elsewhere that cultural traditions can be "recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity," the same kind of international listing that applies to World Heritage sites. Browsing by UNESCO status lets a visitor see which sacred sites carry that international recognition and which do not.
Facts
Attestation
Era of AttestationRomano-British cult sites are attested from the conquest of 43 CE to the end of Roman administration in the early fifth century. The curse tablets thrown into the spring at Bath are the largest body of first-hand religious writing to survive from Roman Britain, and they are the words of ordinary worshippers rather than of priests. 3 Overview
What Defines This GroupingTemples and healing springs of Roman Britain, where Roman and native cult met and gods were worshipped under paired names - Sulis Minerva at Bath, Mars Nodens at Lydney. The pairing is interpretatio, a Roman habit of identifying foreign gods with their own; it does not mean that the two cults, or the two gods, were the same. 2 Learn More
Romano-British Sacred Sites
This small group gathers a Romano-British sacred site, a temple or shrine from the period of Roman Britain, where Roman and native Celtic religion blended, often at healing springs and sanctuaries served by fused Romano-Celtic deities.
The browser will find the site the atlas classes here. The entry describes its deities and religious function within the syncretic religious world of Roman Britain.
UNESCO World Heritage Status
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. The Wheel as a Cult-Symbol in the Romano-Celtic World
Miranda Green, Latomus, 1984
3. Tabellae Sulis: Roman Inscribed Tablets of Tin and Lead from the Sacred Spring at Bath
R. S. O. Tomlin, Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, 1988
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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