Excavation at Caistor St Edmund Temple

On going excavations at one of the Caistor Roman town (Venta Icenorum) temples is being reported day-by-day in an excavation blog! The blog is here and I’m eagerly watching it each day for new finds. They’ve already found a tessellated floor, remains of red plaster, and the ‘terminus’ wall.

The temple was first excavated in 1957 by student volunteers, supervised by Sophia Mottram, on behalf of the Norfolk Research Committee. That means it should be in Lewis’ 1966 Catalogue of Temples in Roman Britain, he records three of them (Caistor 1,2, & 3), I just need to figure out which is which!

You can read more about the project here:

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