Monumentum
Altar of Inveresk with a griffin
This second altar discovered to date near Inveresk includes several elements unusual in Mithraic worship.
Inveresk altar with griffin.
AOC Archaeology Group
The New Mithraeum
29 Jan 2022
Updated on 20 Sep 2023
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Local sandstone altar found in 2010 in what must have been a wooden Mithraeum built in the middle of a field, not far from the fort of Inveresk, near the Antonine Wall.
It was carefully laid face down next to another altar of the same construction dedicated to Sol.
It was carefully laid face down next to another altar of the same construction dedicated to Sol.