The National Museum of Scotland said the stone provided the strongest evidence yet that Inveresk was a pivotal Roman site in northern Britain. It was found by amateur enthusiast Larney Cavanagh at the ...

Dr Fraser Hunter, Iron Age and Roman curator at National Museums ... Scotland said: "The discovery of altar stones to the eastern God Mithras adds a fascinating new chapter to the story of ...

"The discovery of these remains is particularly exciting as it is not often that Roman altar stones are discovered during an archaeological excavation in Scotland. "This helps with the emerging ...

Dr Fraser Hunter, Iron Age and Roman curator at National Museums ... Scotland said: "The discovery of altar stones to the eastern God Mithras adds a fascinating new chapter to the story of ...