Corbridge Lion

The Corbridge Lion is a 2nd–3rd century AD Roman free-standing sandstone sculpture discovered in 1907 at Corbridge, Northumberland. Measuring 0.95m long, 0.36m wide and 0.87m high, it depicts a male lion standing on a prone animal (possibly a deer) on a semi-cylindrical coping stone base. Originally decorative funerary ornamentation from a tomb, it was later reused as a fountainhead by passing a water pipe through its mouth [1].