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Description: | Romano-British cast copper-alloy mount, in the form of a bird, probably a duck, in the round. An integral rivet on flat underside suggests the object was attached to leather. The beak tapers to a rounded (slightly damaged) point in a rather un-duck-like manner. Four pairs of oblique, apparently moulded, grooves on the back represent feathers in a very stylised manner. The upturned tail has received a little recent damage. This is a much more sophisticated version of a possible duck from Colchester (Crummy 1983, no.4268). Ducks and other water-birds ??perhaps belong to a Celtic water-cult which also appears to have had associations with the sun and healing.?? (Green 1978, 24). Length 27mm, height (without rivet) and width 13mm. Straight-sided and blunt-ended rivet diameter 4.5mm, length 3.5mm.
This piece is similar to a duck-shaped mount with hollow socket projecting on underside from Broome / Ditchingham (HER 29457). Other ducks with a hole on the underside have been interpreted as pin heads (e.g. Fincham HER 33049). Ducks appear frequently as thumb-pieces on Roman jug lids (Tassinari 1975, pl. XXXV nos.180-2; Goodburn in Frere Verulamium (1984), 51, fig.19, no.175). A small bird figurine from Whissonsett has the same form of rivet on the underside (HER 31800) but the closest Norfolk parallel was found in Wymondham (HER 33031). | Subjects: | Mount | 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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