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Description: | An incomplete lead object with full-face Style I decoration. The fragment measures 24mm in surviving length and 18mm in width.The reverse is flat and the front has relief decoration of a full-face animal mask, with large rounded ears, brow ridges, circular eyes and a square-ended snout with the nostrils depicted by moulded recesses. Above the animal head the object flares and has more moulding consisting of border longitudinal ridges and two central parallel longitudinal ridges. This object could be a lead model used in the manufacture of a cast copper-alloy object, or it could have been a lead object in its own right. Its shape and Style I ornament bears similarities to the animal heads found on the footplate lobes of great square-headed brooches of Hines's Group IV, V or X. Lead versions of great square-headed brooches are known (Hines 1997, 206) but are not common; there are no others on the PAS database at the time of writing, although there are at least 13 lead or lead-alloy cruciform brooch fragments, four of which are decorated with full-face Style I masks.
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