After visiting the Goddess stone sculpture yesterday, I was able to finish a short documentary on the river Goddess Trisentona. Near to Alrewas in Staffordshire is one of Britain’s most remarkable Neolithic sites, the Catholme Ceremonial Complex. Discovered from aerial photography in the 1960s and only first excavated in the early 2000s, this site is an enigma: a series of ritual monuments spanning nearly two millennia of use. This began with a cursus, which was created some 5,500 years ago. Cursuses are very rare and little understood, and the remains are usually just a set of parallel ditches ranging in length from 50m to more than 3km. The Catholme cursus function is unknown, although they always have a specific alignment (often east-west), and the ones in the Trent Valley are associated with the river, perhaps as a buffer zone between the secular world and sacred sites. They are connected with ritual and sacred purposes, probably ceremonial and processional and certainly connected with the rivers. These monuments represent something very special, and I'm glad the HS1 route avoided this site. The story in the short documentary talks about how Trisentona, the Goddess of the river was worshipped in this Ceremonial Complex. Maybe even this is how The River Trent got its name. https://lnkd.in/ee-qwVp7
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