ID | 463 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | TQ6172 |
Project type | Excavation |
County | Kent |
Site | Springhead |
Site Type | Religious |
Location Type | Temple ditch site |
Context | Stratum C |
Context Quality | 3 |
Context Date | mid C2 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Other finds from site | 3rd-4th c coins (Valens and Valnetinian) |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Unknown |
Name | Unknown |
Bearded | No |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Hand only |
Classical | 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 0.00 |
Length | 42.00 |
References | Pitts 1979, no 266; Green 1976, 228, no 4; Penn 1964, 185, no 14, pl Ia; Merrifield 1977, 389, pl 17 III d [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Clasped hand. 'Hole' between thumb and fingers; underside roughly finished; three filled dowel holes in wrist suggestive of ancient repair; broken off at wrist (Pitts p107) would have held spear, sceptre or similar |
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