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Description: | Copper alloy cast bird probably dating to the Roman period. The bird is a simple design with a roughly triangular body and a long curved neck and long beak. The object is quite worn but appears to have the remains of cast 'feather' decoration on the top of the wings. On each side of the head there is a small glass or enamel eye. The base of the bird is uneven and there is a curved protrusion coming out of one side of the base - possibly the remains of a ring either for use as a finger ring (e.g. jewellery) or as some sort of mount.
The bird weighs 13.9g and measures 29.4mm in length (from beak to tail), 24.9mm in width (from to of head to base) and 13.2mm in thickness. | 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: | 1
400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Marshall | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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