ALTAR OF LONG AGO
We may think that Mother's Day is a comparative recent innovation, but the North of England Excavations Committee lias discovered an old Roman altar ten miles west of Newcastle dedicated by a detachment of the First Cohort of the Verdvtlli. Tt is a charming thought, like the thought that prompted Mother Sunday. Here, we may suppose, the legionaries paid tribute to. all the mothers they had left behind them, their own mothers, withered and bent but so kind and beloved, and their sons' mothers, the lasses who were longing for their return. It helped them to bear their homesickness to build this altar as a token of the honour in which they held those j';ir-\v;n' women. Here they prayed for their hemes. I The allar is in a good slate of pre- ! scrvation, with its inscription still sharp and clear after all the cen- . turics that have streamed away since Britain was a Roman colony.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 56, 22 May 1942, Page 6
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159ALTAR OF LONG AGO Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 56, 22 May 1942, Page 6
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