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Description: | A copper-alloy mount of late Iron Age to early Roman date. The object takes the form of a bull's head and is part of a group of suggested bucket escutcheon which seem to have their origins in the last half of the 1st century BC. Although the most commonly represented animal in this series is the bull, this particular object is perhaps stylistically most closely paralleled with a ram's head escutcheon from a late Iron Age grave in Harpenden, Hertfordshire (I.Stead, 1985, p. 41).
The head of the bull is long, wide, and of reasonably little depth. The upper surface has two transverse ridges, the back one of which has two small circular depression for the eyes. The front ridge forms the snout and has a transverse indented line along its outer edge. The front of the snout is represented on the vertical front face by a horizontal depression containing two indented holes. The two horns are set at either side of the back of the head and are both bent in an inverted "U" shape. The piece was clearly designed to sit flush to the vessel surface as the underside of the mount is flat. It would have been attached by a surviving but bent copper-alloy rivet which passes from between the horns to the underside of the mount.
The object is slightly corroded and may benefit from cleaning and stabilisation. It measures 25.3mm long by 14.3mm high and 13.9mm wide. It weighs 7.61g. | Subjects: | Escutcheon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Watters, Julian - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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