From The Local (Sweden): Archaeologists discover portable altar.

Archaeologists have uncovered a one thousand-year-old portable altar at an excavation site in Varnhem in western Sweden.

The stone object was found resting on the skeleton of a heavy set man believed to have been a priest.

Archaeologist Maria Vretemark from Västergötland’s Museum describes the miniature altar as "a fabulous find".

"When a priest travelled around to say mass in areas where there weren’t many sacred altars, he would bring with him this little stone. [continue]