File:8F2522 medieval? lead bird (FindID 291359).jpg

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8F2522 medieval? lead bird
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None, Wendy Scott, 2010-03-11 15:10:46
Title
8F2522 medieval? lead bird
Description
English: medieval? lead bird shaped fitting,  65mm long, 37mm wide and 15mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs167 grams. The object consists of a bird with long tail fathers, suggesting a peacock? It has its head, with pionted beak, turned backwards to rest on its body which is decorated with indentations representing fetahers. It has a circular fitting at the cebtre of its base, suggesting it sat atop something.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Leicestershire
Date between 1100 and 1500
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1100-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 291359
Old ref: LEIC-8F2522
Filename: 8F2522.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/241705
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/241705/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/291359
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 29 November 2020)
Object location52° 43′ 04.08″ N, 1° 24′ 31.25″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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