Ancasta
Sign in to savethumb|right|The Ancasta Altar Ancasta was a Celtic goddess worshipped in Roman Britain. She is known from a single dedicatory inscription found in the United Kingdom at the Roman settlement of Clausentum (Bitterne, near Southampton). Ancasta may be taken to be a local goddess, possibly associated with the nearby River Itchen.
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thumb|right|The Ancasta Altar Ancasta was a Celtic goddess worshipped in Roman Britain. She is known from a single dedicatory inscription found in the United Kingdom at the Roman settlement of Clausentum (Bitterne, near Southampton). Ancasta may be taken to be a local goddess, possibly associated with the nearby River Itchen.
The votive dedication to Ancasta reads: DEAE ANCASTAE GEMINVS MANI VSLM "To the goddess Ancasta, Geminus Mani[lius] willingly and deservedly fulfills his vow."