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Description: | A cast copper-alloy zoomorphic spout probably from a ewer of later Medieval to Post-Medieval date. It is tubular in form with a stylised dog's head terminal that has an open mouth through which the tube/spout protrudes. The dog has an upturned nose with incised V-shaped nostrils, incised lozengiform eyes with incised brows above, projecting and slightly concave rectangular ears, a row of punched triangles along his brow and a short moulded crest with transverse grooves at the centre of the top of his head. Behind the ears the spout narrows before expanding to a downwards curving and tapering neck that has an open top, traces of solder visible on the flattened upper surfaces of the neck indicative of where it would have originally attached to the ewer itself. The entire object has a dark brown/black patina with some traces of corrosive copper-alloy products in places. It measures 63.74mm in length, 52.10mm in height, 17.58mm in width, 17.66mm in thickness, 11.58mm in external diameter at the spout, and 62.30g in weight.This is a zoomorphic spout for attachment to a ewer and similar to published examples (Lewis, 1987: fig. 8a) and several similar parallels recorded through the PAS (e.g. HAMP-105444, HAMP-332414 or SUR-415E80). It is of later Medieval to Post-Medieval date, c.15th-16th centuries AD.
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