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Object Type
Museum number: 1847,0208.82
Title: Object: The Stanwick Horse Mask
Description: Copper alloy sheet metal mount in the form of a stylised horse's head. Sub-rectangular in outline, convex in section, with features exectuted in low relief and two lateral tabs for attachment. Made to be attached to a wooden object, possibly a bucket.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 50 BC - AD 100 (circa)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Stanwick (Stanwick hoard, 1843)
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 98.60 millimetres; Weight: 41 grammes; Thickness: 1 millimetres (edge, approx); Thickness: 19 millimetres; Width: 63.60 millimetres
Curator's comments: Copper alloy fittings from the 1843 hoard, such as the three 'masks' (1847,0208.82-4) and the narrow, curved strips tooled with a feather pattern (1847,0208.100), may have been decorative elements on the large stave-built vessel or 'bucket' with straight or near-straight sides identified from the iron binding strips (under 1847,0208.163) by Fitts et al. (1999, 41-46, fig 26). References: Fitts, R.L., Haselgrove, C.C., P.C. Lowther and S.H. Willis, 1999. 'Melsonby revisited: Survey and Excavation 1992-5 at the site of discovery of the 'Stanwick', North Yorkshire, Hoard of 1843'. Durham Archaeological Journal 14-15, 1-52.
Bibliographic references: James & Rigby 1997 / Britain and the Celtic Iron Age (p.63, pl.70); MacGregor 1962 / The Early Iron Age Metalwork Hoard from Stanwick, N. R. Yorks; Fitts 1999 / Melsonby revisited: Survey and Excavation 1992-5 at the site of discovery of the 'Stanwick', North Yorkshire, Hoard of 1843 (p45-6, fig 26); Prudhoe 1846 / Report on the discovery of the Stanwick deposit (Pl. II, Fig. 5)
Location: On display (G50/dc9)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2016 11 Mar- 25 Sep, Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland, Celts. 2015-2016 24 Sep-31 Jan, London, BM, G30, 'Celts: Art and Identity' 2012 15 Sep-2013 17 Feb, Germany, Stuttgart, Landesmuseum Württemberg, The World of the Celts: Treasures of Art 2003 26 Apr-24 Aug, USA, Lexington, Kentucky Horse Park, All the Queen’s Horses 1991 24 Mar-8 Dec, Italy, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, I Celti 1975 18 Sep-31 Oct, Lancaster, Scott Gallery, Pendle College, Romans in the North 1975 8 July - 14 Sep, Castle Barnard, Bowes Museum, Romans in the North 1975 17 May - 29 June, Kendal, Abbott Hall Museum and Art Gallery, Romans in the North 1975 12 Apr - 11 May, Durham Light Infantry Museum, Romans in the North
Subjects
Acquisition name
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1847,0208.82
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: M.102

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