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Description: | Possibly a stopper from a jar, possibly tobacco, dating to the 17th/ 18th century. This example is complete and lead, in the form of a human figure from the waist upwards with his hands raised to cover his ears (although one is bent back). A casting seam can be seen running along the side of the body and top of the head.
The face is flat and rather baby-ish, with bulbous cheeks, prominent eyes, nose and lips, and grooves at the back for hair.
The back of the figure has what looks like '47' in relief, but could equally be another kind of mark and unattributable.
The figure sits on a double concentric ring (10x8.9mm diameter and 8.8x8.4mm diameter), with a 1.4mm gap between. The lower (smaller) ring, the base of the object, has a 3mm diameter piercing beneath, extending c.4mm inside the object.
The object stands 22.3mm high, is max.15.7mm wide at the elbows and is max.8.9mm thick. It weighs 8.11g. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hinds, Katie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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