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Description: | A copper-alloy lion headed stud. It is circular in shape, measuring 12mm, on the front face there is a platform incised with a mane and the central head of a lion in high relief, its nose and eyes are visible although it is fairly worn. The back of the stud is concave with a central iron rivet, which is corroded. Similar lion-headed studs have been found at Skeleton Green, inside casket-burials, a further 75 are known from the South East of England and East Anglia. The studs were used to attach lock-plates to the casket and it is suggested that they were manufactured specifically for decorating small cremation caskets. This example is smaller than the known parallels, which range from between 1.9 and 3.5mm in diameter, and due to the style of the face is likely to date to the first century AD (Partridge1981, p314-316, fig119, no, a).
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