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FIGURINE
Unique ID: LEIC-F82755
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Roman?? copper alloy head, 24mm long, 18mm wide and 17mm thick. The object is in good condition and weighs 23.24grams. The object is in the form of a bearded head with large oval shaped ears, almond eyes and prominent nose. It sits on an oval 'plate' which is placed at a slight diagonal angle and the neck sits within a V shaped incision, suggestive of clothing? The head has a small protrusion which may be the base of a suspension loop?
It is difficult to date but its form perhaps suggests it may be a suspended weight, possibly of Roman date?
Another possibility is an anthropomorphic handle, but the angle seems wrong for that?
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 409
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 24 mm
Width: 18 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight: 23.24 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Harborough (District)
Parish or ward: Great Glen (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP6598
Four figure Latitude: 52.575942
Four figure longitude: -1.042267
1:25K map: SP6598
1:10K map: SP69NE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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