Show relic of roman era among the interesting curios to be found in the museum at oxford england Is a huge stone sack back it Is carved ns though fresh from anians un a ians back it bears the mark of a rope which once encircled it in two places and has the ho usual puckers at the mouth where the string once secured the opening all over the stone enn can be seen the marks of the coarse sacking which once covered it its 18 history Is curious some years ago it was flailed fished up in the thames below london bridge where it must have lain tor for centuries some workmen in the time of the romans romana was ca carrying crying this sack back of cement from a moat to the shore when the burden slipped clipped from his bl shoulders into th the water there under the action of th the water it became soled and as years yean passed assed sway away the sack back at last rotted ol 01 M leaving only the hardened colmant within |