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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in good condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Crease on back cover. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It all began with water essential to life and strong focus of religious faiths in this case the springs or wells (which give the city its name) bubbling up from the limestone out of the silt now to be found in the garden of the bishop’s palace. The largest spring isolated from the other three is by tradition known as St Andrew’s Well and was possibly the focus in pre-historic times of worship. Stone Age tools found in the vicinity point to interest in the site thousands of years ago as people often followed water courses as an easier means of travel and may indeed have worshipped nature spirits there. There is evidence too of Roman occupation but not a complete urban settlement. What was found in the archaeological investigations of the late 1970s was the base of a Romano-British mausoleum with a stone-lined burial chamber still evident most probably early Christian. (LL)