Legio VI Victrix, Eboracum

31/08/2026

31/07/2026

Have you ever seen this sign?
If you turn to your right and walk 200 yards you can also visit our museum.
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26/07/2026

A favourite amongst the soldiers.

This week's God is, of course, the greatest and best of all the Gods, Iupiter or Jupiter.
Iupiter, Optimus, Maximus!

Iupiter was the supreme King of the Gods in Roman mythology. As the deity of the sky, thunder, and lightning, he was viewed as the ultimate protector of the Roman state, laws, and social order.

His primary symbols were the thunderbolt and the eagle.

He is the Roman counterpart to the Greek God Zeus. He was worshipped at the magnificent Temple of Iupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill alongside his wife (and sister) Juno, and the goddess Minerva.

He was the son of Saturn (the God of time and agriculture).

According to myth, Iupiter overthrew his father and divided the universe with his brothers, taking dominion over the heavens and the earth.

25/07/2026

Another fantastic event, congratulations to everyone involved.

21/07/2026

19/07/2026

Malton Roman festival V taking shape nicely.

15/07/2026

The Legion is behind you England football team in advance of tonight's match!

12/07/2026

The Romans arrive in Malton next Sunday!

There’s just one week to go until Malton Roman Festival V, a great day out for all the family on the site of an old Roman fort.

🎟️ Purchase your tickets on our website here:
https://malton-museum-shop.square.site/s/shop

11/07/2026

Following on in our weekly look at the more obscure and lesser known Roman deities, we are today thinking about the god Terminus, who was the god of boundaries and property lines!

Honoured during the annual Terminalia festival held on the 23 February, Terminus was offered gifts of honeycombs, wine and grain.

His boundary markers could not be moved, this is shown in the construction of the great temple to Jupiter Optimus Maximus in Rome where an already existing stone dedicated to Terminus was built into the new building. And, as his markers had to be open to the sky, a window was constructed to allow the stone to remain open to the elements.

The worship of Terminus shows us how important land divisions and correct boundary markers were to the Romans.