|
Date: |
|
Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy bucket escutcheon or other mount of Late Iron Age to Early Roman date. The mount is in the form of a stylised bovine head with forward projecting horns, moulded rounded eyes and muzzel and small sideways-protruding ears (one of the ears is broken and missing). The surviving ear has several short vertical linear scores as decoration, but this is the only additional decoration on the mount. Projecting from the top of the animal's head is a long rectangular sectioned shank or neck which expands into a suspension loop for the handle of the bucket. A smaller loop is situated directly below the muzzle. Asmall round rivet hole extends through the thickness of the mount and is located slightly off-centre between the animal's eyes. The reverse of the animal's head is hollow and appears to retain traces of a possible lead-based solder. A good number of these bovine bucket mounts have been recorded by the PAS although they are of varying form; those closest to this example include NMS-E2A312, HESH-178702, WAW-342131, BH-1729A7 and LIN-EF25D3. Bovine mounts were made from the Late Iron Age (c. 100 BC) into the early Roman period; there is also some indication that they continued to be made into the early-medieval period (see for example YORYM-65AA92). Comparable bovine mounts have also been found in excavations, for example at the Welsh legionary fortress of Usk (Manning 1995: 198/fig. 53, no. 14). The naturalistic elements of the example recorded here suggests an early-Roman date, c. AD 43-200. Other examples, with more stylised Iron Age traits, are illustrated and discussed in Stead (1996:56) and Jope (2000), plate 173, e-h & plate 166.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
BUCKET
A copper-alloy vessel escutcheon (probably…
-
BUCKET
A complete cast copper-alloy ox-head…
-
MOUNT
An incomplete copper alloy zoomorphic…
-
BUCKET
A complete cast copper alloy…
-
Bucket
A probable cast copper alloy…
-
BUCKET
A probable cast copper alloy…
-
BUCKET
A cast copper alloy bucket…
-
-
-
|