ROMAN GEMS RETRIEVED FROM ANCIENT DRAIN
As many as 30 exquisitely carved stones – just a few millimetres in diameter –have been discovered at a site near Hadrian's Wall in Carlisle. Known as , they are believed to date from the late second eentmy to the third century AD, and were probably lost while their owners is an amethyst bearing a likeness of Venus, as well as a stone depicting a mouse nibbling on a branch.
