TOLKIEN, J. R. R. (contrib.).

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Report on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire. First edition, with an appendix by Tolkien titled "The Name 'Nodens'" pp. 132-7, a concise philological study of the Celtic deity associated with the Lydney Park site. Tolkien, then Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, examines the etymology of "Nodens" and its linguistic affinities as a scholar of early myth and language.The larger report by the Wheelers documents the excavation of the prehistoric, Roman, and post-Roman remains at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, centred on a Romano-British temple complex dedicated to Nodens. Conducted under the direction of Mortimer and Tessa Wheeler in the late 1920s, the excavations revealed mosaics, inscriptions, and evidence of ritual practice, establishing the site as a religious centre in Roman Britain. It was published as Number IX in the Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

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