ID | 858 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | SP0483 |
Project type | Excavation |
County | West Midlands |
County Previously | Warwickshire |
Site | Birmingham |
Site Name | Metchley |
Site Type | Military |
Location Type | Fort |
Context | Area 3, C6 layer 2 |
Context Quality | 3 |
Site Date | mid C1- early 2 |
Context Date | Mid C1 AD |
Object Date | Iron Age? |
Object Period | -1 |
Material | Bronze |
Import | No |
Location | Birmingham City Museum |
Ref No | SF 201 |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Animal |
Name | Boar |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Classical | 0 |
Quality | Stylised 2 |
Photo | No |
Illustration | Yes |
Height | 24.00 |
Length | 64.00 |
Parallels | Jacobsthal 1944, no 387 pl 189-90 or 384 pl 173 |
References | Webster 2002b, 78, fig. 23 no. 2 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | A solid bronze animal with a long body and snout, something like a dachshund, probably intended to represent a boar. This is a typical example of Celtic bronzework, as is seen from the surviving lentoid eye. Its elongated shape is suggestive of a handle, possibly a lid. . . it was attached to something (Webster) |
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Last updated: Wed Feb 29 2012