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Description: | This is a small lead figurine of a cockerel standing 36mm high, cast in the round from a two-piece mould. Its tail is typically displayed, and from its lower hind quarters there proceeds a hollow tube of lead which is circular or ovate in section. The cockerel's feet stand on a rounded base, part of which is broken away to reveal that the whole casting is hollow, and was perhaps once stoppered below the base. The pipe or tube described above is half-round hollow (in the upper half) but filled with lead in the lower or under part of the tube. The cockerel's body surface is covered with a light texturing, cast-in, to suggest feathers. It seems probable that this object is a whistle, activated by blowing up the tube into the bird. It may perhaps not be older than the nineteenth century. No adequate parallel has come to my notice. | Subjects: | rooster-shaped zoomorphic lead | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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