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Description: | Small copper-alloy vessel mount in the shape of a stylised bull's head. The neck is long and curving, and broken at the lower end (fresh break). It flares slightly from the break and has a flaring groove running up the reverse, which forms an indentation on the top of the head. To either side of the head horns project, outwards at first but then curving up to become vertical (one is bent slightly backwards). Each one is circular in cross-section, and tapers as it rises; they end in a slight waist and then a flattened knob terminal. The nose of the bull is short and square-ended, with a right-angled cut-out on the underside to let it sit on the rim of the vessel. There is a possible parallel, more complete, from Henley in Suffolk (HEN 008). This is a very interesting little mount.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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