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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy bucket or vessel mount or escutcheon of probable Late Iron Age to Roman date. It is in the form of a human face, missing one side as well as one suspension loop due to old breaks. The face is oval shaped in form, very worn and with poorly cast facial features. Small circular eyes are just visible towards the top of the face, with a slightly projecting oval shaped nose, raised cheeks to either side and an oval shaped mouth towards the base. It tapers slightly towards the chin, from which extends an incomplete flattened, oval shaped projection of uncertain form. To one side of the face is a flattened semi-circular projection that may have served as a suspension loop but may have simply been decorative and is positioned close to where the ears of the face would likely have been depicted. The corresponding projection to the other side of the face is now missing due to old breaks. At the top of the head is an integrally cast and oval shaped suspension loop that has a central circular rivet hole and is oval shaped in section. A prominent casting seam is visible around the edge of the object, particularly at aht esuspension loop, and the back face is slightyl concave at the centre. It is extremely worn, with a dark green patina and traces of corrosion in places. The entire object measures 50.74mm in length, 30.29mm in surviving width, 10.94mm in thickness, and weighs 30.62g.This is probably a decorative mount or escutcheon of Late Iron Age to Roman date, perhaps for use on a vessel or similar object. In form it is similar to bovine shaped mounts noted through the PAS and from excavated contexts in Britain (see for example SF-9E1B87, SF-536544, WAW-342131, ESS-3806F3, SF-29BDD6, WMID-C96A57, SF5462; Megaw and Megaw, 1989: 223) and date to the Iron Age or Roman periods. The use of a human face is also noted in examples recorded through the PAS (for example BERK-1F1071) and particularly for strap fittings (e.g. SF-F80655). These parallels suggest a similar function for the current example and a date range spanning the 1st century BC to the 1st or 2nd centuries AD.
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