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Description: | Very abraded copper-alloy figurine, perhaps of a duck, with a hollow underside. It has a beaked head with a possible dot eye to either side. The neck swells out into a chest which is cut away on the underside, and into a sloping back. To either side the swelling body ends in two projections. These extend from the very edge of the body and so are unlikely to represent legs. They may be incomplete; if so, they may originally have curved to become vertical pegs with which the figurine could have been set into a base. The back narrows to become a tall thin tail. Beak to tail length, 27 mm; width, 19 mm; height, 21 mm. The object is similar in size and shape to a Roman duck brooch (e.g. Hattatt nos. 621-2, 1165-6), but there are no enamel cells and the projections on the underside of the body are not found on the brooches. In addition, although the object is abraded there is no evidence of pin fixings. Presumably it is some sort of religious figurine. | Subjects: | duck | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geake, Helen - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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