 It was subsequently re-used as a fountainhead by passing a water pipe through its mouth.It was found in a water tank in 1907 in excavations led by Leonard Woolley on Site II (a corridor building with tesselated floors, hypocausts, and painted wallplaster that has been suggested as a "mansio" or posting station) on the Roman site at Corbridge.It is believed to date to the 2nd or 3rd centuries AD.