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FIGURINE
Unique ID: NLM-74F386
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy figurine fragment. Hollow cast head from a figurine, comprising a youthful face with large lentoid eyes and a small mouth and nose, and a coiffure comprising thick and thin 'braids' angled to frame the face while concealing the ears, and with four further thick braids swept back from the right side of the head [as viewed] to cross another three braids swept back from the left side. The base of the casting is thickened as if to suggest the edge of a garment. A hole of diameter 2.7mm appears in the top of the head, and its back is flattened, probably by fortuitous impact rather than by design. Those features here described as braids might depict a female coiffure, but in a British context may rather represent a swept-back hairstyle of Celtic style, as appears, for example, on a stone head now mounted over the window of a cottage in Brantingham High Street, East Riding of Yorkshire, which is of likely Roman date. The prominent eyes nod to Celtic convention, but the treatment is otherwise naturalistic, suggesting provincial Romano-British manufacture. Suggested date: Roman, 75-410.
Height: 23.3mm, Width: 16.5mm, Thickness (wall of casting): 1.2mm, Weight: 7.57gms.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 75
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 23.3 mm
Width: 16.5 mm
Thickness: 1.2 mm
Weight: 7.57 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 14th October 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM34105
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Figurative
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Nottinghamshire (County)
District: Bassetlaw (District)
To be known as: Dunham-on-Trent
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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