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Description: | A copper-alloy three-dimensional mount in the form of a boar's head. The mount is pointed-oval in plan, triangular in cross-section and arches from snout to terminal. The facial features are very worn. The eyes are depicts by feint lines; the snout is moulded to a small peak and the boars crest is shown as a prominent ridge. There is a circular hole set horizontally through the side of the mouth. There is also a circular hole through the base set half-way along the mount and towards one side. This hole does not go right the way through the object.It is difficult to say what the mount was once attached to. Broadly similar boar mounts and bovine mounts are known to have decorated late Iron Age and Roman buckets and vessels.
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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