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Vercovicium or Borcovicus

Housesteads Roman Fort is the remains of an auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall, at Housesteads, Northumberland, England, south of Broomlee Lough.

Mithraic monuments of Vercovicium or Borcovicus

 

Cautes Borcovicus

The head this statue of Cautes from Carrawburgh has been lost.

CIMRM 854

 

Mithras rock-born from Housesteads

A naked Mithra emerges from the cosmic egg surrounded by the zodiac, as always carrying a torch and a dagger.

CIMRM 860

 

Mithraeum of Housesteads

The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.

CIMRM 852