Carrawburgh - Britain's most complete Roman Mithraeum
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Carrawburgh - Britain's most complete Roman Mithraeum

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Just to the South East of Brocolitia Roman Fort on Hadrian's Wall there lies the best preserved Mithraeum in Britain, now in the care of English Heritage. The mithraeum was constructed around AD 200.

The rectangular stone temple is small and secluded, with one entrance, and probably no windows, creating the dark atmosphere resembling the cave in which Mithras killed the sacred bull and feasted with the sun god, Sol.

The Mithraeum with altars, a Tauroctony scene, statues of Cautes and Cautopates symbolises the cosmos, in celebration of Mithras and the promise of an afterlife and rebirth.

At Brocolitia three commanding officers of the fort dedicated the altars whose replicas you can see in the temple today, the originals are in the Great North Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne..

The temple was rebuilt or refurbished four times during its lifetime before falling out of use by about AD 350. At roughly the time when we see the rise of Christianity and the deliberate destruction of other religions and temples, and this Mithraem also suffered some deliberate desecration and the robbing of building materials

With disuse, waterlogging from the adjacent burn occurred and afterwards the site was buried by a Roman rubbish tip and that preserved the ruins for us today

Video extract from “Virtual Mithraeum” at the Great North Museum

Music from Rome Total War by Jeff Van Dyck
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