The discovery raises a possibility that the space served as a shrine or cult room.
Archaeologists from the University of Leicester have been excavating for the Leicester Cathedral and surprisingly found that The Leicester Cathedral site has been utilized for worship and religious observance for around 1,800 years.by the University of Leicester, discovering an altar stone during excavations raises the possibility that the space served as a shrine or cult room.
Around 1,100 burials from the 11th century to the middle of the 19th century were found during their investigations. Once the renovation is done, the remains will be reinterred with care and sensitivity by Leicester Cathedral. Rare artifacts have also been discovered, including a possible building and the first Anglo-Saxon coin discovered in Leicester in nearly 20 years., some 3 meters below the surface, they discovered signs of a well-built semi-subterranean structure with painted stone walls and a concrete floor.
Built most likely in the second century AD, the sunken room was purposefully demolished and filled in, most likely in the late third or early fourth century. They also discovered the foundation of an altar stone there, lying broken and face down amidst the debris.The altar, made of native Dane Hills sandstone, is 25 cm by 15 cm and features beautiful moldings on three sides. It would have been placed against a wall because the back is plain.
“Given the combination of a subterranean structure with painted walls and the altar we have found, one interpretation, which seemed to grow in strength as we excavated more, could be that this was a room linked with the worship of a god or gods. What we're likely looking at here is a private place of worship, either a family shrine or a cult room where a small group of individuals shared in private worship," Mathew Morris, Project Officer at ULAS who led the excavations, said.
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