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Description: | Cast copper alloy and iron object, possibly a finial of a firedog. The object shows a bull head with protruding ears and a narrow muzzle. The head rests atop a cylinder that has an iron rod in the centre; sharply curving spikes form a crest running down the back of the head and the cylinder. The object is highly decorated. Located on either side of the crest are vertical ridges composed of small squares. This motif also runs along the underside of the head, perpendicular to the vertical ridges and meeting them on either side. The head has two curving, sturdy horns, and just below each horn, on the sides of the head are ears. The measurement from ear to ear is 33.0 mm. In the centre of each ear is a large pellet. On the face, two holes representing eyes are located just on the inside, and beneath, of each horn. The nose and mouth are at the end of the narrow muzzle, and these are represented by two small holes for the nostrils and a small, straight line for the mouth. The front of the cylinder is decorated with a triangular shape, wrapped around it, filled with horizontal ridges. The top of the triangle begins at the base of the head, just under the muzzle and ends at the bottom of the cylinder. From the top of the triangle, two further lines extend (one from either side), curving up to meet at the place where the two ridges of small squares meet. The cylinder has a diameter of 12.56 mm. The end of the muzzle is 6.19 mm. The spikes of the crest are approximately 10.46 mm high. The object is perhaps comparable to a Type A firedog (Piggott 1971, in Boardman, Brown and Powell, p 250), this being a bull-head with a narrow muzzle and curving horns.
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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