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Description: | Early Saxon lead unidentified object, possibly a model, cast zoomorphic D-sectioned. Stylised animal??head with slight bosses for eyes and slightly flaring snout. Flat-backed with chamfered groove between two projections at upper edge. There are two vertically aligned shallow circular depressions on the flat back. 19 x 40mm. Weighs 1.63oz, 713.4grains, 46.22g.
This find might be associated with the manufacture of objects in copper-alloy. Lead models have increasingly been recognised as a part of the casting process, possibly as a replacement for wax in the ??lost-wax?? method of casting (East 1986, 1-2). However, this example, being itself cast, probably represents either a finished object at the lower end of the market reproducing an item that more often survives in copper-alloy, or a trial-piece or a patron, a durable master form which would have been pressed into still-damp clay moulds for multiple production (Egan 1996, 92, see also Leahy in Geake 2005, 337-341). | Subjects: | Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robbins, Katherine - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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