The New Mithraeum Database

This limestone statue of Cautes is now exposed at Great North Museum of Newcastle.

TNMM251 – CIMRM 849

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.

TNMM309 – CIMRM 852

The Mithraeum of Rudchester was discovered in 1844 on the brow of the hill outside the roman station.

TNMM78 – CIMRM 838

The archaeology of the Rudchester Mithraeum

Lecturer in Ancient History

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

TNMM130 – CIMRM 854

Pons Aelius, or Newcastle Roman Fort, was an auxiliary castra and small Roman settlement on Hadrian's Wall in the Roman province of Britannia Inferior, situated on the north bank of the River Tyne close to the centre of present-day Newcastle upon Tyn

One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort.

TNMM529 – CIMRM 846

One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort.

TNMM527 – CIMRM 845

One of the altars from the Carrawburgh Mithraeum depicts the bust of Mithras or Sol.

TNMM180 – CIMRM 847, 848