2000-Year-Old Cat Paw Prints Discovered on Tile

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Paw prints made by a cat 2,000 years ago have been found on a Roman roof tile kept at a museum in south west England.

The cat is thought to have run across the wet clay tile when it was left out to dry in about AD100. Despite the feline footprints, the Romans fired the tile, a type called tegula, and used it on the roof of a building in what became the Berkeley Street area of modern Gloucester.

It is possible the cat was a Roman army cat, the pet of a Roman soldier who stationed at the site.

 

...via Discovery News