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Roman altars found at Musselburgh

Source: Source BBC News
Date: 4/2/2010

Two Roman altars have been discovered during survey works preceeding planned renovation works to a cricket pavillion in Musselburgh. One of the altars has sufficient detail remaining to allow it to be confidently dated by archaeologists to the 2nd C AD.
The altar is dedicated to Jupitor, the leading God in the Roman pantheon of deities prior to Rome's Christian era.

These are yet more great finds of the Romans time in Scotland (see our recent newsbite on nearby Cramond) and help shed further light on the environs of the major Roman military and civillian complex at Inveresk in East Lothian.



Link to BBC new article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8640741.stm