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Description: | Post-medieval cast copper-alloy eagle figurine, perhaps from the lid of a vessel. Casting seam around sides of head and wings (wingspan of 40mm), feathers indicated by fine engraved lines and modelling. The bird has a flat base rather than feet, pierced by an iron rivet that continues through the body of the bird, with much corrosion on the upper body.Cast birds similar to the example noted here turn up on a fairly regular basis. Although they have often been given a Romano-British date, the large number of almost identical figurines now known as a result of metal-detecting may indicate a later date of manufacture for these objects, perhaps during the 18th century.A similar example, dated to the Roman period, can be seen in Green (1976), 179 and Plate VIII, k. This example is riveted to a 'disc', perhaps a vessel lid; the rivet-hole does not appear to fully perforate the body of the bird.
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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