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Description: | A cast copper alloy figurine of a cockerel of Roman date. The details are basic, with the comb atop the head suggested by a groove and the wings suggested by raised oblongs at each side of the body. The tail is crescent shaped and thin. Silvering is still present in the grooves beneath the wings and at the legs. The legs are resting on a small oval platform 6mm long and 4mm wide. A small nub, square in section on teh underside of the platform suggests that the figuring sat intop of a larger object, possibly fitting into a larger figurine scene, or more likely is that this particular object is the head of a pin. Ros Tyrell, FLO for Bucks, states in her record (BUC-FBC273) that a figurine of Mercury found at King Harry Lane, near Verulamium [St Albans] includes at his feet a ram, a tortiose and a cockerel (Religion in Roman Britain by Henig, p 61, fig 19). This figurine may be part of a similar figurine.Similar cockerels have been recorded on this database at BUC-FBC273, HAMP-2D1DA7, KENT-1793C5 and NLM-936A94.
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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