BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833)<br /> Pic: Hansons/BNPS<br /> <br /> Weighty find - 85lb Roman lead from a Somerset mine turns up 2000 years later.<br /> <br /> A treasure hunting bricklayer who unearthed a 2,000-year-old Roman ingot on a farm is now set to profit at auction.  <br /> <br /> Jason Baker found the 2ft long lead bar with his metal detector on a routine rally in the Mendip Hills near Wells, Somerset, last year.<br /> <br /> Amazingly the ingot is still inscribed with the name of emperor Marcus Aurelius Armeniacus dating it to 164 AD, and would have been destined for Imperial Rome had it not been lost at the time.<br /> <br /> It will be sold in Etwall, just outside Derby in Derbyshire, on March 22, when it's expected to fetch &pound;15,000.
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