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Figurine
Unique ID: HAMP2606
Object type certainty: Certain
Cast copper-alloy miniature goat figurine. Incised, curving lines to represent the animal's hide. The ears are elongated, and one is incomplete. Below the ears, there is a raised moulding around the front and sides of the head, with transverse incised lines. The goat is standing on a base with an irregular lower surface. Goats and cockerels are the cult animals associated with the god, Mercury and they may have been intended to stand on pedastels flanking Mercury figurines.
An almost identical goat figurine is known from the Uley shrines, Gloucestershire - thought to be dedicated to Mercury on the basis of the significant quantity of religious objects associated with that god and discovered there during excavations (Henig 1993, 101 no. 3 fig. 88). A figurine with a cock and a ram is known from King Harry Lane, Verulamium (Britannia 1972, 330 pl. xxv, b and c) and an example with a stand with a goat and tortoise is known from Augst (Kaufmann-Heinimann 1977, 105, no. 155 pls. 103-4). Other examples are known from Gallo-Roman sites such as Vicus de Pommeroeul, Hainault (Faider-Feytmans 1979, 198 no. A3,1) and Matagne-la-Petite Faider-Feytmans 1979, 197 A2, 1-3; De Boe 1982, 26 and 30, fig. 9)
Class: goat
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Length: 20 mm
Width: 24.5 mm
Weight: 9.59 g
Quantity: 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Spatial data
Region: South East And London
County: Hampshire
District: Basingstoke And Deane
To be known as: Basingstoke area
Method of discovery: Metal detector
[scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth less than 0.25 m [scope notes]
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 2002
Personal details
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Recorded by: Ms Sally Worrell
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Identified by: Ms Sally Worrell - [view all attributed records]
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Created:
Wednesday 8th January 2003
Updated: Tuesday 15th March 2011
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