Vindolanda shrine (July 2009)

[Tarbicus]

Interesting find.
Strange they would leave shrines outside the Fort though?
Open to desecration if the fort was under attack?

Would it be desecrated, though? I'd have thought monotheists would do such a thing, whereas the ancients at that time were polytheists mostly, and seem to have respected other people's gods, if not adopt and adapt them. I dare say any attacker would hesitate at the very least lest he be struck down by one of Jupiter's thunderbolts.