Roman
	The IA situation changes with the arrival of the Romans who, after Claudius' campaigns of 43 AD, decided to destroy many of Britain's sacred sites including the sacred lakes [which were dredged for profit]. From this unpromising beginning the more usual Roman toleration of native religion developed, in which native god was fused with Roman god, evident in the springs of Aquae Sulis [Bath] where Sulis [native god] and Minerva [Roman god] were venerated as one. This gave a precedent for the widespread development of water shrines and Wells such as the Well of the three Nymphs, Coventinas Well and possibly the Trinitarian Wells on Sheppey. These sites were often dedicated to an important deity but more often that not and as is the case at the Well of the Three Nymphs, the dedication is to a local/indwelling spirit or Genius Loci. Sculptures of such spirits, offerings, coins etc. were left at such places often as payment for a curse or cure, a practice that still survives at many Wells today.