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Significance of Benwell Roman Temple
The significance of the temple at Benwell lies in its unusual association with a named Celtic god, Antenociticus.
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George Villiers, later the Duke of Buckingham, became a favourite of King James I after their first meeting at Apethorpe in 1614. Surviving love letters between James and George are telling of their close relationship, which brought Villiers great fame and fortune.
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Benwell Roman Temple - Hadrian's Wall
The remains of a small temple to the native god 'Antenociticus', in the 'vicus' (civilian settlement) which stood outside Benwell fort.
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Carrawburgh Roman Fort and Temple of Mithras - Hadrian's Wall
One of 16 forts along Hadrian’s Wall, Carrawburgh once housed about 500 soldiers responsible for defending the frontier. Nearby stands a fascinating temple to the god Mithras, with facsimiles of altars found during excavation.
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Above the entrance to the late medieval abbot’s house at Rievaulx Abbey is a sculpted sandstone panel dating to around 1500. The panel provides insights into the beliefs of the monks who lived at Rievaulx and can be used as a way of interpreting medieval representations of Gabriel coming to Mary.
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Margoth: A Cross-Dressing Medieval Spy
In 1265 a female royalist spy, dressed as a man, gathered vital intelligence on a rebel army which was camped outside Kenilworth Castle. We explore what light this episode sheds on cross-dressing and espionage in medieval England.
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The Viking Raid on Lindisfarne
The devastating Viking attack on the church of St Cuthbert in 793 sent a shockwave through Europe. But a Christian community at Lindisfarne survived, and recorded the event on the famous ‘Domesday stone’.
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Magic, Medicine and the Middleham Jewel
How a 15th-century amulet discovered at Middleham Castle in North Yorkshire reveals the complex relationship between superstition and theology, spell-casting and prayer, in late medieval England.
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Mithras and Eastern Religion on Hadrian’s Wall
How a remarkable sculpture of Mithras, found at the remote frontier fort of Housesteads on Hadrian’s Wall, reveals religious and military connections with distant parts of the Roman Empire.