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Wheeler loc. cit. p. 170 ff. pis. 33, 34, 2, 37, 38, 2, Miss M. V. Taylor in the Journ.
Rom. Stud. 1935 xxv. 220 f. pis. 40 and 41, 1, cad. ib. 1937 xxvii. 242 f.), contributed
something to the popular etymology of Maiden (properly Mai-Dun) Castle. The temple
itself may have been that of Do'.ichenus, a Celtic form of whom is suggested by a votive
offering found in 1934 just outside the south-east corner of the building, viz. a three-
horned bull (supra i. 639) made of tinned bronze and bearing a triad of busts, one minus
its head (R. E. M. Wheeler loc. cit. p. 272 pi. 39 ( = my fig. 878), Miss M. V. Taylor
loc. cit. p. 220 pi. 41, 2).
Another power associated with Doliehenus in the Celtic area as a pendant to Minerva
with her spear was Hercules with his club (supra i. 616 fig. 487). And here we must
take into account the interesting bronze mace found in 1857 by a ploughman on
Willingham Ken, ten miles north-west of Cambridge (M. Rostovtseff—M. V. Taylor
' Commodus-Hercules in Britain' in the Journ. Rom. Stud. 1923 xiii. 91 ff. pi. 3
(inadequate), L. C. G. Clarke in The Antiquaries Journal 1926 vi. 178 f. pi. 31,
F. M. Heichelheim in Pauly—Wissowa Real Enc. vi a. 925 f., id. in Proceedings of
the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 1935—1936 xxxvii. 56 ff. pi. 4, b). The mace had
been deliberately broken, perhaps by way of damnatio memoriae after Commodus'
assassination in 192 a.d., and enclosed in a wooden chest along with a number of
votive bronzes—soldiers on horseback, a bull's head, an eagle, an owl, etc. The three
fragments of the mace, which together measure c. o'345m in height and had once a
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Wheeler loc. cit. p. 170 ff. pis. 33, 34, 2, 37, 38, 2, Miss M. V. Taylor in the Journ.
Rom. Stud. 1935 xxv. 220 f. pis. 40 and 41, 1, cad. ib. 1937 xxvii. 242 f.), contributed
something to the popular etymology of Maiden (properly Mai-Dun) Castle. The temple
itself may have been that of Do'.ichenus, a Celtic form of whom is suggested by a votive
offering found in 1934 just outside the south-east corner of the building, viz. a three-
horned bull (supra i. 639) made of tinned bronze and bearing a triad of busts, one minus
its head (R. E. M. Wheeler loc. cit. p. 272 pi. 39 ( = my fig. 878), Miss M. V. Taylor
loc. cit. p. 220 pi. 41, 2).
Another power associated with Doliehenus in the Celtic area as a pendant to Minerva
with her spear was Hercules with his club (supra i. 616 fig. 487). And here we must
take into account the interesting bronze mace found in 1857 by a ploughman on
Willingham Ken, ten miles north-west of Cambridge (M. Rostovtseff—M. V. Taylor
' Commodus-Hercules in Britain' in the Journ. Rom. Stud. 1923 xiii. 91 ff. pi. 3
(inadequate), L. C. G. Clarke in The Antiquaries Journal 1926 vi. 178 f. pi. 31,
F. M. Heichelheim in Pauly—Wissowa Real Enc. vi a. 925 f., id. in Proceedings of
the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 1935—1936 xxxvii. 56 ff. pi. 4, b). The mace had
been deliberately broken, perhaps by way of damnatio memoriae after Commodus'
assassination in 192 a.d., and enclosed in a wooden chest along with a number of
votive bronzes—soldiers on horseback, a bull's head, an eagle, an owl, etc. The three
fragments of the mace, which together measure c. o'345m in height and had once a