A woman wearing protective gloves reaches up to touch a gilded bronze leg beside a horse display
Assistant curator Bethany Simpson examines the gilded bronze leg, a centrepiece of the exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA
Assistant curator Bethany Simpson examines the gilded bronze leg, a centrepiece of the exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA
Bronze leg found in Scottish bog sheds new light on Roman occupation

Once thought to have been looted by Scottish tribes, the gilded limb is the centrepiece of a new exhibition on Roman Scotland in Edinburgh