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Name for a British goddess worshipped during the Roman occupation. A well was dedicated to her near Hadrian's Wall at what is now Carrawborough, south North-umberland. Surviving reliefs portray her as a kind of water-nymph. Excavations at her well in 1876 uncovered a cache of 14,000 ancient coins.
Subjects: Religion.
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