ID | 5 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | ST4465 |
Project type | Excavation |
County | Somerset |
Site | Yatton |
Site Name | Henley Wood Temple |
Site Type | Religious |
Location Type | Temple precinct |
Context | metalling layer |
Context Quality | 3 |
Site Date | Late C2/Early C3-4 |
Context Date | C4 |
Object Date | C1? |
Object Period | 1 |
Material | Bronze |
Secondary Material | Glass inset eyes? |
Other finds from site | C4 coins and C2 brooch |
Import | No |
Place of manufacture | Local |
Location | Woodspring Museum, Weston |
Ref No | 1986/5441, BZ66 |
M/F | Female |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Deity |
Name | Mother Goddess |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Other | Torc |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Worn, especially on face. |
Classical | 0 |
Quality | Stylised 3 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 75.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
Parallels | Aust (Ellis 1900, Cunliffe 2010) |
References | Wilson 1970, 296, pl XXXV; Henig 1996a, 131-3, no 161, fig 110; pl 30-3; Pitts 1979, no 135 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | See Henig for full description. Found in Area III (Temple precinct) between the temples and temenos ditch |
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