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Description: | Cast copper-alloy zoomorphic vehicle fitting fragment dated to the early Roman period from AD 43-200. The terminal is in the form of an eagle's head, with an incomplete sub-circular socket at the base. Mass: 19.5g; length: 34.3mm; width: 33.4mm; extant external diameter of socket: 20mm. There are moulded brows and ridges on the eagle's head, with incised lines forming feathers on the top of the head and neck. Eyes on either side of the head are also incised. There is a semi-circular gap between the upper and lower parts of the beak and pronounced ridges at the base of the eagle's neck. Around the outside of the socket near to the base of the terminal there is a wide groove. There is a rivet hole on one side of the terminal in this groove, but the area opposite this in which there may have been a second rivet hole is incomplete. The terminal is hollow, although there are green deposits at the top of the socket. The terminal has a blue/green patina to which a lacquer has been applied. A broadly similar but less complete example from Langford, Nottinghamshire is recorded as find DENO-B0D2F6 on the PAS database.
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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