File:Undated Carved Stone Fossil Head (FindID 201853).jpg
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| Undated Carved Stone Fossil Head | |||
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West Berkshire, Charlotte Burrill, 2007-12-13 20:02:53 |
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Undated Carved Stone Fossil Head |
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| Description |
English: Limestone bivalve fossil with carved face on one side. The face has pronounced lips & nose although the lower part of the nose is broken. The eyes are oval and recessed. There is further decoration in the form of two crescents with transverse grooves to either side of the head - these are perhaps intended to represent hair, horns, ears or some kind of headress.
Stone carvings are notoriously difficult to date and therefore this item must remain undated. It was initially suspected that the item may be Late Iron Age to Roman period based on the style of the face and locally associated Roman material. In the opinion of Martin Henig of Oxford University, however, it is most likely to be a Post-Medieval to Modern artefact. Undated. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Oxfordshire | ||
| Date | ROMAN | ||
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FindID: 201853 Old ref: BERK-01F272 Filename: Stone Carved Head.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/159486 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/159486 Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/201853 |
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