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The London Mithraeum

Walbrook, City of London

A temple to a secret Roman god, beneath a City office block.

In 1954 builders clearing a bomb site found a Roman temple to Mithras, a god worshipped in secret by soldiers and merchants. Thousands of Londoners queued to see it.

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When
About AD 240
Where
51.5120, -0.0910
Group
Roman Britain

Visiting

Free to visit, but booking is recommended.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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