A cricket pavilion renovation near Edinburgh uncovered two Roman altars buried in the 140s CE, both carved from local sandstone and dedicated to the gods Mithras and Sol. The altars were deliberately buried in the Roman era and had been part of a mithraeum, a temple to Mithras that drew followers from the Roman military. The discovery happened in Inveresk, a village above the river Esk near the Firth of Forth, now home to 18th-century houses and a kirk. The Guardian reports the altars were finely made but fragile, and part of a broader exhibition documenting Scotland's Roman occupation, which also features bathhouses, leather shoes and other artefacts.