Woodeaton or Wood Eaton is a village and civil parish about 4 miles northeast of Oxford, England. It also has a special needs school called Woodeaton Manor School. There was a Romano-Celtic temple north of where the parish church now stands, and probably a Romano-British settlement and shrine as well. The shrine was used successively by …Woodeaton or Wood Eaton is a village and civil parish about 4 miles northeast of Oxford, England. It also has a special needs school called Woodeaton Manor School. There was a Romano-Celtic temple north of where the parish church now stands, and probably a Romano-British settlement and shrine as well. The shrine was used successively by Roman pagans and Christians. A small square temple was built in the first century AD. This was replaced with a more substantial building that had moulded stonework and decorated plasterwork, and a rectangular perimeter wall was added that enclosed an area around the temple building. Numerous notable bronze artefacts have been discovered at and around the site and are now housed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. A sixth-century Anglo-Saxon pendant has also been found at the site, but the reason for its presence at a Roman site is not clear.
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