Figurines Data

ID	187
Images	No image in database
Grid Ref	NY7914
County	Cumbria
Site	Brough-under-Stainmore
Site Type	Military
Location Type	Fort
Context	Unknown
Context Quality	0
Object Period	0
Material	Bronze
Import	No
Place of manufacture	Local
Location	British Museum
Ref No	1874,0328.42
M/F	Male
Form	Figurine
Type	Human
Name	Bound Captive
Bearded	No
Standing/Seated	Seated
Clothed	No
Drapery	No
Condition	Good
Classical	0
Quality	Stylised 1
Photo	Yes
Illustration	No
Height	0.00
Length	0.00
Parallels	London (174)
References	Green 1978, 48; British Museum 1964, 54, no 2; Jackson 2005, 151 no 2, figs. 1, 3 and 8 [Link to Bibliography]
Description	The figure is very schematically rendered and the workmanship indifferent. It shows a crouched or seated man, with drawn-up haunches, bound with a rope or chain than encircles his neck, wrists and ankles. Although the form is reasonably well-observed the head is disproportionately large. The stylised hair is shown brushed back in lines, the beady eyes comprise small round pellets within slightly irregular hollows, the nose is beak-like and the mouth is a broad horizontal slit. The flexed arms and legs, undivided and schematised, with elbows on knees, are depicted essentially to show their position. Details of the forward-thrust clasped hands are restricted to a grooved representation of interlocking fingers. The twisted rope encircling the neck ha been comparatively carefully depicted, but it is shown more schematically where it extends forward from the neck to the wrists (Jackson).