QUICK FACTS
Name: Altar to Sol
What it is: A carved sandstone altar
Where it is from: Inveresk, Scotland
When it was made: Second century
Before construction workers began building a new cricket pavilion in Lewisvale Park, just east of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2010, archaeologists were called in to survey the area. In their brief dig, the excavators discovered a unique Roman-era altar that had once been used to worship the sun god in a mysterious, male-only ritual.
