During excavations, archaeologists have found hundreds of significant finds
The broken altar base was discovered in what would have been the basement of a large Roman buildingArchaeologists have discovered what they believe to be a Roman shrine buried beneath a former graveyard next to Leicester Cathedral..
During excavations, which have been carried out as part of the £12.7m project, thousands of finds have been uncovered.The finds include a broken altar base, which was discovered in what would have been the basement of a large Roman building close to the external wall of the modern cathedral.
"There's always been a tradition that the cathedral was built on a Roman temple, based on antiquarian discoveries in the 19th Century," said Mathew Morris, excavation director for the University of Leicester's Archaeological Services which carried out the dig."There are no tests that can prove what it was. That it was a shrine is the most likely theory, but there aren't really any others.
"It's proving significant. It's only a tiny little area of Leicester, but the material we've recovered from it, the burials, the Roman archaeology underneath, are going to be a key insight into the city," he said. Other finds at the site have included Roman coins from the First and Fourth Centuries, a perfectly preserved Roman hairpin, the remains of a brooch and some fragments of Gaulish pottery with representations of a gladiator, as well as a Pegasus or gryphon.
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