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Description: | Copper alloy fragment with a relief human head possibly forming part of a larger openwork object strap-union junction. The back is flat. The outline of the head, (13x9mm) tapers from the hairline to the chin and it is fairly smoothly curved in profile. The hair is shown by incised lines: two lines, perhaps with transverse notching, form a centre parting with a group of five parallel lines each side, angled from forehead to centre line. The front hairline is slightly raised from the face.The eyes are a strong punched dot in ring (1.5mm diam), with a light arc for the eyebrow. The mouth is a horizontal line, with slight changes in height marking the mouth and nose. Except at the top the head is surrounded by a ledge (3mm thick) with a bevelled edge and punched dots; this ledge projects out to form crescents (or broken circles) each side of the top of the head, whereas the lower part is more angular in outline. The ends of the crescents are all damaged and so could be breaks, and formed circular rings originally; the area below the chin is also damaged and has the stubs of probable projections from the angles. A very similar object has been discovered in Fring, Norfolk, it consists of three rings attached to a central hexagon bearing a human face in relief. The piece is cast in one and the rings and the edge of the hexagon are decorated with a series of 'punched' dots. It has been examined by Natasha Hutcheson who believs that it is most likely to be a strap junction and to be late Iron Age or early Romano-British in date. There are also other examples of three link objects, presumably some kind of strap union, in particular, there is another example fromCamerton in Somerset - although this example does not have a face (Jackson,R. 1990. Camerton: the Late Iron Age and Early Roman Metalwork. London: British Museum Publication). Surviving length 19mm, surviving width 25mm, 6mm thick.
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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