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Description: | Cast copper alloy Roman figure, probably part of a pin. This figure takes the form of the head and neck of a female. When viewed from the front the face is round. The features are simply rendered and much worn. Two incised dots represent the eyes and are placed either side of a sub oval raised moulding that represents the nose. The mouth is a simple horizontally incised line below the nose. The ears are represented by raised sub circular mouldings to either side of the head, with a depression in each. They are much worn and barely discernible like the rest of the features. The figure?s hairstyle is moulded so as to appear to sweep around from the forehead and back to an upward rising crest at the back of the head. The wear to the object means it is not possible to see any decorative detail on the hair, but there are three vertical incised lines at the back of the head. When viewed from the top, the top of the head appears as a slight dome, surrounded by the ?collar? of the hairstyle. The neck of the figure is simply a short, wasted column. The head and nick sit upon an integral moulding of two adjoined rectangular collars, both decorated around their circumference with a vertically incised line. Extending from the bottom rectangular moulding is a sub oval shaft, which appears to flare, but is broken diagonally along its length. The break edge seems to show the end of a narrow socket, though this may simply be coincidental and merely subsequent damage to the shaft. The break edge is worn, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The object is abraded and pitted but much of the original surface survives with a dark green patina. Where it is pitted, the exposed surface shows as lighter green. The object is 47.06mm long, of which 11.1mm is the adjoined rectangular mouldings, and 16.7mm the neck and head. The head is 10.08mm wide and 15.84mm long from front to back. The rectangular mouldings are 9.38mm long, 7.1mm wide and 4.4.68mm high (individually). The rest of the shaft is 5.88mm wide, flaring to 6.5mm. The object weighs 21.53g. Though this object is robust and heavy, its closest parallels lie within metal hairpins depicting human figures. Cool, 1990, discusses metal hairpins with representational heads and notes that they are much rarer than those made in bone. She comments that though most seem to be from the 1st and early 2nd century, examples are known from the later Roman period. | 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 | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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