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Description: | A cast lead bird cage trough or feeder. The vessel is complete but very distorted, and would originally have been D-shaped in section, flaring from the base, with a flanged rim. The flattened rim measures 71.36mm in length. The object is decorated around the rim with a foliage and pellet motif either side of a small bird facing left. These bird troughs date to the 16th -17th century (decorated examples tend to be earlier in date). The metal surface is worn and scratched, and the lead has gone a light whitish-grey colour and the surface is very powdery. The depiction of a bird on the trough gives hard evidence that these objects are bird feeders rather than holy water fonts.
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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