One of my favourite objects in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh is this sandstone sculpture of a lioness eating a man. The sculpture lay hidden for around 1800 years beneath the water and silt at the mouth of the River Almond in Cramond near where I live. There was a Roman fort based at Cramond and I wonder if perhaps it is one of the most northerly points reached by the Romans. It fascinates me that the Roman soldiers may have marched past the spot where my house now stands today.
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