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VESSEL
Unique ID: LEIC-881365
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Medieval copper alloy mount in the form of a woman's head, 54mm high and 41mm wide (at base) and 24mm deep. It is in good condition with a green patina and weighs 157 grams. The face is primitively carved with two wide incised eyes and incised lips beneath a crude and almost flat nose. The hairstyle has a central parting above wavy lines showing the hair has been pulled to the side and then forwards. Where the hair meets the face at the sides it looks as though it has been wound around something as it is tucked in and frames the face. The back of the head is slightly rounded and has a large circular depression, 14mm deep and 10mm in diameter, in its centre. The figure has a round neck which then spreads to form a rounded terminal at the front, a bit like a ships figure head. At the sides of the neck is a shallow groove and below this, on each side, emerges part of the vessel rim at an oblique angle, forming a semi-circle edge to the base of the figure. The back of the figures neck also has a horizontal groove cut into it, just above the vessels edge. The late Geoff Egan had noted that the hairstyles on these objects are 14th Century but that the figure is probably from a laver of 15th or early 16th century date.
Class: laver
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 54 mm
Width: 41 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight: 157 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: en11397
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
District: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Leighfield (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK8104
Four figure Latitude: 52.627725
Four figure longitude: -0.804748
1:25K map: SK8104
1:10K map: SK80SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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