Rights Holder: Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service
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Unique ID: ESS-30AEA8
Object type certainty: Certain
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Cast copper-alloy figurine of a lion, probably a knife or implement handle. The lion is resting its forelegs upon an upward diagonally inclined 'rock'. A thin groove differentiates the rock from the lion's legs. The mouth of the lion is open.
The details on the surface of the item seem to be a combination of moulded relief casting and engraving. There is a circular void beneath the lion's stomach, and perpendicular to this is a circular void in the base of the figure, approximately at the centre of the base. There is also a circular indent close to the edge of the base surface, directly underneath the 'rock'. These two latter features may have been integral to the attachment of the figure to another item.
It has been suggested that the item is Roman in date.
Dimensions: weight: 10.9g, height: 22mm, width: 20.7mm, thickness: 7.5mm
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Quantity: 1
Height: 22 mm
Width: 20.7 mm
Thickness: 7.5 mm
Weight: 10.9 g
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: TM3166
Four figure Latitude: 52.24367313
Four figure longitude: 1.38223934
1:25K map: TM3166
1:10K map: TM36NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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