Cramond lioness

Cramond lioness

Stephen Potts writes about this Roman remain, which you'll find in the Early People gallery on Level -1.

Behold my death

I finally meet my maker, silent among the arena crowd. Once exiled northward, his hands will petrify me - and my merciful lioness - into a monument fiercely muscular, in the custom of this cursed Rome.

And if upsucked from Pictish ooze, two million tides hence, to face your many questions, I raise now only one.

Here’s my distant death: who will behold yours?

About the author

Stephen Potts

Stephen Potts writes medical non-fiction, children’s books and also screen adaptations (including Philip Pullman)

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