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Description: | Roman zoomorphic enamelled plate brooch in the form of a human headed bird. The body of the brooch is made up a flat disc with a Y shaped cell for what appears to be traces of orange enamel. In one arm of the Y there is a further trace of what appears to be black enamel. The curved sides of the stylised wings have small triangular notches on both edges. The triangular tail of the bird is decorated with rows of small transverse lines. The creatures neck springs from a triangular section. This is decorated with lines of punched semi-circles. The human part of the head is delineated by a pronounced chin that follows through to become the hair line. The rather round face has hollowed oval eyes, a blunt nose and a single slit for a mouth. The underside of the creature is undecorated. One of the two tabs that held the now missing iron pin is present as is the catchplate. While various forms of birds are depicted as brooches no thing withn a human head has yet been discovered in current research
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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