The Lost Goddesses of Britain — A New Book on the Real History of British Goddess Worship

The Lost Goddesses of Britain by Rowan Hart

Now available on Amazon Kindle. It is the second volume in the Lost Britain series, and the recovery of Britain’s actual goddesses — named, located, and attested in the surviving evidence — drawn from Roman inscriptions, Welsh medieval prose, archaeological finds and folk tradition, rather than from the soft-focus reconstructions that have dominated the popular shelves for the past forty years.

Most popular books on British goddesses centre on one figure: the Triple Goddess. Maiden, Mother, Crone — a developmental cycle of feminine divinity threaded through every culture from prehistoric Europe to modern paganism.

The Triple Goddess as currently understood was assembled between 1948 and 1979. Robert Graves’s The White Goddess (1948) gave her literary form. Gerald Gardner’s Wicca gave her ritual frame in the 1950s. Marija Gimbutas’s archaeology gave her prehistoric provenance in the 1970s — much of which has since been retracted by mainstream scholarship.
Meanwhile, Britain’s actual surviving goddesses have been left almost entirely to the academic shelves. There are at least thirty named female deities of Roman Britain in the inscriptional record alone, and that does not begin to count the Welsh medieval material, the warrior queens, the folk hags of British memory, or Britannia herself. The Lost Goddesses of Britain is the recovery of those figures for the popular reader, written in a voice the non-specialist can follow but with the sources intact.

Who You Will Meet

The book treats ten Romano-British goddesses in depth, alongside the goddesses of the Welsh Mabinogion, the warrior queens of the Iron Age, the folk hags of British memory, and Britannia herself.
Sulis at Bath, goddess of Britain’s only major naturally hot spring, where 130 surviving curse tablets record what real Romano-British people wrote on lead and threw into the spring.
Coventina at Carrawburgh on Hadrian’s Wall, whose single frontier well took 13,487 coins across three centuries.
The Matres, the Triple Mothers, more densely commemorated at Cirencester than anywhere else in the Roman west.
Andraste, invoked on a battlefield in AD 60 by Boudica before the last stand of the Iceni.
Brigantia, the only crowned goddess of Britain in any surviving image, sovereign of the northern federation.
Cerridwen, Rhiannon, Arianrhod, Branwen and Modron — the goddesses of the Mabinogion, whose memorial cairns and named places are still in the Welsh and Anglesey landscape.
Black Annis and the Cailleach, the British folk hags whose names are still cut into the place-names of Leicestershire and the Highland glens.
Britannia herself, the Roman provincial deity who became the personification of a nation, and is still on the back of the British coin.
And Senuna, whose existence the historical record did not know about until 2002, when a metal detectorist in a Hertfordshire field picked up what he thought was a piece of tinfoil and turned out to have found her.
What Each Chapter Offers
Each chapter separates verifiable history from twentieth-century invention, names its sources, and closes with a small practical observance rooted in what the goddess’s actual cult did. The reader who wants to write a prayer to Sulis on a sheet of lead and drop it in moving water has the historical authority of 130 surviving curse tablets to draw on. The reader who wants a household shrine to the Matres has the surviving altarpieces. The reader who wants to walk to Branwen’s memorial cairn on the Alaw can find it on the Ordnance Survey. The recovery is not abstract. It is named, located, and walkable.
Who This Book Is For
For readers of Ronald Hutton and Miranda Aldhouse-Green. For anyone who has ever picked up a book on British goddesses and felt the source apparatus was missing. For practitioners who want to root their work in the surviving evidence rather than in soft-focus reconstruction. For history readers interested in pre-Christian Britain who want a serious introduction to its female-divine.

Where to Buy

The Lost Goddesses of Britain is available now on Amazon Kindle.

About the Author and the Series
Rowan Hart writes on British witchcraft, folk magic, and the goddesses of pre-Christian Britain. The Lost Goddesses of Britain is the second book in the Lost Britain series, following The Lost Folk Magic of Britain: Cunning Folk, Charmers and the Real History of British Witchcraft (2026).
The series is published by Divine Warrior, the British retailer of tarot, crystals, ritual supplies and traditional witchcraft tools.