ID | 430 |
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Images |
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Grid Ref | TL4070 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Cambridgeshire |
Site | Cottenham |
Site Name | Willingham Fen |
Site Type | Unknown |
Location Type | Hoard |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 1 |
Context Date | mid-late 2nd |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Other finds from site | Box containing objects and figurines (see 28) |
Location | Cambridge University Museum |
Ref No | 1918.160.6 |
Form | Attachment |
Type | Bird |
Name | Owl |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Cracked and repaired |
Classical | 0 |
Quality | Stylised 2 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 40.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Leibundgut 1976, no 49; Zadoks-Josephus Jitta 1973, No 47; J. Chester N. Wales Archaeol Soc 1959, pl10a |
References | Pitts 1979, no188; Toynbee 1964, 128; Green 1976, 210; Rostovtseff 1923, 94, pl iv.4 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Stylised figure with a very broad chest, deep round inset eyes with a very narrow beak. Wings folded and with a border of short, parallel incised grooves. Stands on top of a round hollow pedestal which could be the top of a staff. Circular hole on top of head. |
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