Goddess Minerva's Shrine — Attraction in City of Chester

Sadly when I called past the shrine there was no beautiful goddess to greet me, only an elderly lady eating chip's and swigging strong lager, maybe she was the goddess, as she did ask me for an offering, in fairness she also offered me a swig of her lager, I politely declined, was kind of her though eh. The Minerva Shrine is situated in Edgar's field park. It's a lovely place to walk on an Autmn day, or picnic in the warmer months. If it snows, it's an ideal location for sledging, however, it can get busy. The Shrine is quite worn away, though you can make out a rough outline of a figure carved into the living rock. Come to think of it, the elderly lady looked very like the carving, mind you, I imagine that the carving is at least 1ooo year's...

Minerva's Shrine in Edgar's Field, Handbridge, England, is a Grade 1 listed building and scheduled monument dating from the 2nd Century. The shrine was carved into a sandstone quarry face and is the only monument of its kind in Western Europe that remains in its original location. Minerva was the Roman Goddess of War, and her situation in Edgar's Field is accounted for by its proximity to the southern approach road to Deva, now Chester, one of Rome's principle British fortresses. A fissure next to the monument, called Edgar's Cave, is probably a natural feature which has...

Really cool place. 2nd century shrine carved into a large boulder on a field. The shrine is a stone calving which obviously it’s the 2nd century so it’s pretty beat up but you can make out the figure. There’s a cave hole into the boulder but it’s got bars and inaccessible but it’s only small anyway so not much to see. Definitely worth the stop tho as you won’t get to see many 2nd century carvings like this in...