ID | 1007 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | SJ8397 |
Project type | Excavation |
County | Greater Manchester |
County Previously | Lancashire |
Site | Castlefield |
Site Name | Barton Street |
Site Type | Military |
Location Type | Vicus |
Context | hearth 705 in enclosure G |
Context Quality | 3 |
Site Date | Late C1- mid C3 |
Context Date | Late C2 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Lead |
Other finds from site | Horse-shaped mount also possibly associated with structure/enclosure G |
Location | University of Manchester |
M/F | Male |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Unknown |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Classical | 1 |
Photo | No |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 58.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
References | Cool 2007b, 134-6, fig. 3.72 no. 5 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | p134 'The modelling is very crude, but is much better on the upper body. It was found inserted vertically into a divot, and the possibility exists that it was made in the knowledge that only the upper body would be visible.' Lead was used for curse tablets - material and insertion into the ground may suggest rite involving cthonic deities. P136 'Crude flattened figure with raised arms; legs and feet merged together. Face has flattened nose and prominent lips; a diagonal cross moulding extending from hips to shoulders; on figures right arm there is possible deliberate moulded detail around the bent elbow. A squared grid pattern of scratches on back.' |
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