Archaeologists uncover what they believe to be a Roman shrine beneath a former graveyard in the grounds of a cathedral in central England.
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Experts from the University of Leicester said on Tuesday that they found what appears to be the cellar of a Roman building and a fragment of a 1,800-year-old altar stone during excavations in the grounds of Leicester Cathedral. "Until now, there's been no way of being able to say whether there was or not," he added, but the new findings reveal that "there is definitely a Roman place of worship underneath the cathedral".
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