La Vita e Breve

mythsandfolklore:

Coventina was a Romano-British goddess of wells and springs. She is known from multiple inscriptions at one site in Northumberland county of theUnited Kingdom, an area surrounding a wellspring near Carrawburgh on Hadrian’s Wall. It is possible that other inscriptions, two from Hispania and one from Narbonensis, refer to Coventina, but this is uncertain and disputed.

Dedications to Coventina and votive deposits were found in a walled area which had been built to contain the outflow from a spring now called “Coventina’s Well”. The well and the walled area surrounding it are nearby the site variously referred to as Procolita, Brocolitia, orBrocolita, once a Roman fort and settlement on Hadrian’s Wall, now known as Carrawburgh.

The site near Coventina’s Well was excavated by British archaeologist, John Clayton, in 1876.

Excavation of the site revealed several inscribed altars, some with depictions of Coventina in typical Roman nymph form.
Excavation also revealed a large quantity of coinage, from early Augustan coins to those of the late 4th century, and other votive objects such as brooches, rings, pins, glassware, and pottery. These are assumed to be votive offerings due to the quantity discovered in a single location.

(via mythology-and-art)