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Description: | ~~An incomplete lead bird that is probably a toy cockerel from a cock-shy game. The body of the bird is crescent shaped and decorated with a series of low pellets on one side that give the imprecision of feathers. Surmounting one arm of the crescent is a circular head that has a large ring-and-dot eye in the centre. To the front of the head projects a long, narrow and pointed beak that has a downward curve. On the opposite arm would have been the tail of the bird, but this is now truncated. On the underside of the bird are two small projection that are the remains of the legs.The following is taken from record SOM-C3678CIt is likely that this object would have been part of a 'cock shy'. This game is similar to that of skittles, and was derived from the Shrove Tuesday pursuit of casting stones at a live cockerel, which was either tied or secured in the ground up to its neck (Egan & Forsyth, 2005, p.239). Most examples tend to be of 18th century or later dating.See SOM-C3678C, SUR-D5C903, SUSS-09AD6A and WMID-E26595 for similar examples~~Forsyth, H. and Egan, G. (2005) Toys, Trifles & Trinkets. Base Metal Miniatures from London 1200 to 1800. Unicorn Press, London.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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