The Celtic World (Routledge Worlds)

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Celts and Germans tn the Rhineland -


® Hill-forts built or occupied in La Tene times • Other important hill-forts
X Other sites mentioned in text
---.,,>~ Lines of communication probably available in Caesar's time

Figure 31.3 The Hunsriick-Eifel region in the late La Tene period. (From E.M. Wightman,
Roman Trier and the Treveri, London: Hart-Davis, 1970.)


exception, who came under the empire? One might speculate that Celts more than
most people would miss their own religious landscape. The conflated Romano-Celtic
divinities turn up in the Rhineland as elsewhere in the Celtic world. The gods with
double names are often linked with a purely Celtic consort, like Lenus Mars with
Ancamna (Figure 31.4), or Mars Smertrius with the same goddess, Mars Loucetius


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