[Link to Bibliography]
| ID | 27 |
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| Images |
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| Grid Ref | TL3835 |
| Project type | Chance |
| County | Hertfordshire |
| Site | Barkway |
| Site Type | Unknown |
| Location Type | Hoard |
| Context | Unknown |
| Context Quality | 0 |
| Object Date | L2-e3rd? |
| Object Period | 3 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Other finds from site | Plaques dedicated to Mars and Vulcan |
| Import | Maybe |
| Location | British Museum |
| Ref No | 1817,0308.1 |
| M/F | Male |
| Age | Youth |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Mars |
| Bearded | No |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Headgear | Helmet |
| Other | Baldric |
| Attributes | Missing |
| Attribute description | Shield and spear |
| Clothed | No |
| Drapery | No |
| Condition | Right leg missing below knee, left foot and hands also missing, some pitting and corrosion |
| Classical | 1 |
| Quality | Classical 2 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 200.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| Parallels | Faider-Feytmans 1957, no 11+318 |
| References | Pitts 1979, no 13, pl 17; Toynbee 1964, 66; British Museum 1964, 56; Lindgren 1980, 108-9, pl 78; Taylor 1914, 149, pl X [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | Stands with left leg bent, head turned slightly to the right. Right arm raised, probably held spear. Left arm held a shield. Well modelled. Baldric across right shoulder. |
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