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Description: | Post-medieval cast copper-alloy eagle figurine, perhaps from the lid of a vessel. The eagle is depicted as flying, with the right wing raised and the left wing slightly downturned at the front. The head is turned to the left. The feathers are indicated by fine engraved lines and modelling. The tail is triangular and again detailed with feathers. The bird has a short circular shaft below which has a narrowed band just before a flattened terminal. This mechanism may have allowed it to be secured to a lid.
Cast birds similar to the example noted here turn up on a fairly regular basis. Although they have often been given a Romano-British date, the large number of almost identical figurines now known as a result of metal-detecting may indicate a later date of manufacture for these objects, perhaps during the 18th or 19th century. | 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: | 1700
1900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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