ID | 1184 |
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Images | No image in database |
Grid Ref | TQ3109 |
Project type | Metal detector |
County | Sussex, East |
Site | Brighton |
Site Name | North of city |
Site Type | Unknown |
Location Type | Unknown |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 0 |
Object Date | C1-2 |
Object Period | 2 |
Material | Bronze |
Secondary Material | Inset eyes |
Import | No |
Location | Brighton Museum |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Animal |
Name | Stag |
Bearded | No |
Standing/Seated | Standing |
Clothed | No |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Three of the legs are damaged |
Classical | 0 |
Quality | Stylised 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 164.00 |
Length | 0.00 |
References | Henig 1995a, 36 and 38, fig. 18; Anon 1987, 145-6, no. 3252 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | The modelling is surprisingly assured, but the smith was not constrained by the demands of naturalism. Large recessed eye-sockets were probably intended to take glass settings. . . The stag has a shaggy mane, allowing full scope for the smith to explore pattern and texture (Henig). |
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