The Collegium Peregrinorum at Silchester

n the course of the excavations at Silchester in 1907 remains of a Romano-Celtic temple were discovered in Insula XXXV in the south-east quarter of the Roman city (FIGS 1-2).1 The building, like many others in the town (including two further temples in Insula XXX beneath the present churchyard), was not set square to the street grid, but its main axis was aligned some 13 degrees north-east-south-west from the east-west street.2 The remains of three important well-cut inscriptions incised on slabs of Purbeck Marble, 20 mm thick, which mention a guild of peregrini were recovered from within and around the building