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Description: | A very worn and incomplete copper-alloy lion-headed stud, so called as it is decorated to resemble a stylised lion's head. Circular in plan measuring c25.79mm in diameter and 14.79mm in thickness, the front face is shaped and pyramidal in cross-section, the back face is hollow. The lowest part of the front face is undecorated. There is then a step up to the next ledge, which is decorated with transverse engraved lines representing the lion's mane. The next element slopes more steeply, and is decorated with oval indented eyes. The uppermost element is sub-oval and represents the nose of the lion.
The back face is hollow, and in the centre of the reverse is the corroded remains of a iron rivet.
Lion-headed studs have been found elsewhere in Suffolk at Barking (see SF8842), Rattlesden (see SF8319) and Hatcheston. The lion-head motif is believed to depict the devouring powers of death and is used in provincial Roman art as a decorative motif on stone funerary monuments. H Borrill has examined 75 lion-headed studs from South East England and East Anglia, as well as those found at Skeleton Green, Hertfordshire. He argues that they were manufactured specifically to decorate cremation caskets, and used to attached lock-plates to the casket via their iron rivets (Borrill 1981, 312-316, fig 117 and 119). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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