I have discussed the artistic problem on pp.

235 and 236.] A third example, also from sculpture, is supplied by the Corbridge Lion, found among the ruins of Corstopitum in Northumberland in 1907 (Fig.
18).

It is a sculpture in the round showing nearly a life-sized lion standing above his prey.

The scene is common in provincial Roman work, and not least in Gaul and Britain.

Often it is connected with graves, sometimes (as perhaps here) it served for the ornament of a fountain.
But if the scene is common, the execution of it is not.