ID | 899 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | SP6532 |
Project type | Metal detector |
County | Buckinghamshire |
Site | Tingewick |
Site Type | Unknown |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 0 |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Location | Returned to finder |
Ref No | BUC-D11A12 |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Bird |
Name | Cockerel |
Bearded | No |
Is an attribute of | Mercury |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Legs missing, worn |
Classical | 1 |
Quality | Stylised 2 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 28.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
References | PAS database [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | The birds' head is roughly pinched into a beak shape, but no other features are visible. One side of the body is decorated with ring-and-dot motifs and the tail is decorated with incised parallel lines. The legs and feet are missing and there is a break at the junction of the legs and body (PAS). Possible attachment. |
PAS id | BUC-D11A12 |
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