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Description: | Cast copper alloy mount in the shape of a lions head, diameter 14.5mm, thickness 8.5mm, weight 2.6g. Small decorative circular boss with a concave reverse. The decoration is in high relief and arranged on three stepped levels. The low outer perimeter is decorated with closely packed curved radiating lines that represent the main, the centre is stepped with a raised central dome, here ring a dot eyes are used to depict the eyes, in the centre of this is a triangular projection that would be the snout of the animal, this has a ring and dot in the centre. These pieces have been found in association with mid 1st to mid 2nd century AD burial caskets at Skeleton Green, Hertfordshire (see Borrill in Partridge 1981: 314-318). Their usage is believed to represent the devouring power of death and the lion's head motif appears frequently on provincial Roman funerary monuments (Partridge, 1981: pp. 315). These examples are dated to the first or second centuries AD.C Partridge, 1981. Skeleton Green, a late Iron Age and Roman-British Site London : Britannia Monograph Series No. 2, pp314-318.
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