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The discovery of a Roman statue--the first free-standing sculpture to be unearthed in London in 33 years--was reported Monday by the London Museum. Museum archeologists made the rare find in an excavation just beyond the old Roman Wall in the City of London, the original Roman settlement. They believe the headless body, about three feet in height, is a figure of the god Mercury, probably carved in Britain about the second century. Fragments of leather, glass furnace material and other artifacts nearby indicate the area was a Roman industrial complex.