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Description: | Cast copper alloy animal figurine, probably Romanesque 12th century. Figurine of an animal cast in the round, probably a dog. It has a long-ish rounded snout with open mouth, a groove across the snout just below the bulging pointed oval eyes, small backward swept ears, slim whippet-like dog's body and tail curving down the back legs and curved upwards at the tip. The front legs are not modelled but where they would have been, at the font of the chest, is the remains of an iron bar (of uncertain section) which goes through the body at an angle, coming out in the centre of the back; the bar does not project from chest or back not, having presumably corroded away. Fine dark green patina. Length (max from nose to tail) 69.3mm, width across head 8.0mm, width max across chest 8.9mm, width across back hips 8.6mm, height if standing c.40mm, thickness across chest 12.5mm, weight 31.50g. David Williams, Helen Geake and Geoff Egan and Sally Worrell have all seen this object and their consensus is that it is probably 12th century and possibly a vessel handle.
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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