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Roman tombstone found in field

THE first Roman tombstone to be unearthed in Scotland since 1834 has been found in a field at Carberry, near Inveresk, East Lothian.

It marks the death of Crescens, a bodyguard to the governor of Britain, between AD140 and AD180.


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