Not every remarkable thing announces itself. Beneath the streets of the City of London, seven metres down, sits an ancient Roman temple. It was discovered entirely by accident. As London rebuilt itself after the second world war, construction work revealed the two-thousand-year-old ruin. At the time, simple progress seemed more important than priceless archaeological value.
The Mithraeum was in the way, so it was simply scooped up and rebuilt somewhere more convenient: the roof of a car park. It was on display, in plain sight, but torn from its context, it sat oddly, out of place, and largely ignored. Eventually it was returned to its original depth: reinstated with care in the place where it made most sense. Something had been understood in the intervening years. Progress doesn’t always have to displace the past.
Mithraeum is a crescent-shaped shawl in fingering weight yarn. A calm, satisfying knit, worked in garter stitch with rows of delicate eyelets through the body and a chevron lace border echoing the angular stonework of the site itself.

Size
One Size

Finished Measurements
Approximately 160cm (63”) diameter across straight top edge
36cm (14”) neck to bottom edge

Yarn
Sweet Fiber Sweet Merino Lite 100% Superwash Merino; 434m/475yds per 115g skein, 1 x 115g skein, Colour: Rose Gold
OR
120g of fingering or sock weight yarn totaling approximately 453m/496yds.

Note: The sample used all of one generous skein of Sweet Fiber Merino Lite – more than the 115g listed on the ball band

Needles
4mm (US 6), 80/100cm (32/40”) long circular needles (or size to obtain gauge)

Notions
Tapestry needle
Removeable stitch marker

Gauge
18 sts/33 rows = 10cm (4”) in garter stitch after blocking