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Description: | Cast-in-one Iron Age copper alloy vessel mount in the form of a bull??s head in the round with horns curving slightly backwards and inwards, exaggeratedly high brow ridge, lentoid eyes (one obscured by corrosion) and very deep nostrils. The triangular section neck meets a flat reverse before returning to the rear of the muzzle and then continuing down to a break as a backwards curving bar with a median moulded groove. There is no evidence for attachment. Length 42mm. Width 13mm.
Although this bears some resemblance to bull??s head mounts from vessels other than buckets found at Henley and Freckenham, Suffolk (PAS SF223 and SF8686), it may be significant that those examples have long necks that curve forwards rather than backwards. The form of the head and the manner in which the neck loops round to the muzzle is closer to that of a handle fragment from Corbridge, Northumberland (Macgregor 1976 cat. no.314). 1st century BC / 1st century AD. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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