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Description: | Three-dimensional moulded bust made from lead, with a cylindrical iron rod 3 mm in diameter running vertically through it. Although the head is very worn, it appears to have an elaborate hairstyle with long hair rolled up from the ends to make a long 'sausage', and also some kind of pony-tail running from the crown over the roll of hair at the back. Beneath is a small square-cut area of chest, then a narrowed waist above an incomplete hollowed conical base. The base has a line running around it and the rod ends within it. Above the head are some incomplete mouldings around the iron rod, which projects above about 8 mm. There are slight casting flashes running down either side of the bust. The total length is 51 mm, the lead cast is 42 mm long, and the bust is 23 mm long from the base of the square-cut chest to the top of the head. The bust is in a classical style, but is it Roman or post-medieval (neo-classical)? In favour of a Roman date is the wear on the head, and perhaps the unusual elaborate hairstyle. In favour of a later date may be the fact that it appears to be mass-produced; there is a very close parallel from Shimpling, Suffolk (sf561/4663). In addition, the iron rod seems remarkably uncorroded. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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