ID | 346 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | ST4442 |
Project type | Excavation |
County | Somerset |
Site | Meare |
Site Name | Meare Lake Village |
Site Type | Rural |
Location Type | Mound XIII |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 2 |
Site Date | 3rd-1st c BC |
Object Date | LPRIA |
Object Period | -1 |
Material | Bronze |
Secondary Material | Iron core? |
Location | Somerset County Museum |
Ref No | E53 |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Animal |
Name | Boar |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Quite good but missing face and crest degraded |
Classical | 0 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 64.00 |
Length | 34.00 |
References | Foster 1977, 29, no 1, fig 2, pl 1; Gray and Bulleid 1953, 222-4, fig 64 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Face broken off, obviously originally hollow or pierced, and appears to have had an iron core (stippled on fig 1). Groove along back to take a crest of bronze (Foster). |
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