A LONG-LOST Roman bust has turned up in North Yorkshire.
The 1,800-year-old marble carving of the god Jupiter has been at Fountains Abbey near Ripon since it was acquired by the 18th Century owner of the site, MP John Aislabie.
The piece has now been identified as part of the celebrated collection of the Earl of Arundel’s antiquities from the classical world. Experts at English Heritage’s archaeological store in Helmsley are now about to begin work on a long process of conservation.
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