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Description: | Romano-British figurine in the form of a bird, probably a crow. There is engraved detail present, mainly on the wings on the back of the bird, indicating feathers. The legs rest on an integral globular stand, and the claws are visible as slight mouldings at its front. The globular stand contains the corroded remains of a circular-sectioned iron shank or staff. The bird??s open beak is damaged and may originally have been closed up at the end to form a transverse round aperture. Height 35mm. Length >42mm. Width 17mm. Iron shank, diameter approximately 5mm. Weight 26.72g. Cf. drawing of example from Briningham (HER 44766). The crow or raven was the ??sacred companion of several Celtic deities??.including the Celtic divine couple Sucellus and Nantosuelta (Green, M. J. (1978), 23). | Subjects: | Crow or raven Romano-British | 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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