Two lead objects, animals shown.... Roman?

[woody50]

Found two lead items on an old field in England.
They are shown below.

- One looks like the back part of a broken lead animal (Horse?). Register number a414
Weight 23,8 gram
Size (mm) length=42,3 height=31 width=16,8

- The other is a rolled up round lead disk, it looks like an animal in the fetal position. Register number a413
I have not yet opened the roll, and will do that only after I know how old it could be.
Weight 8,8 gram
Size (mm) length 25,1 width=13

They look Roman but not sure.

 

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[vince76]

Very Interesting. An Akker, must be a piece of land 10m x 100m.

 

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[CRUSADER]

I'm starting to think it might be the lamb of God??

 

[woody50]

Very cool. I'm not sure what animal it is. However, I believe its sacrificial, as indicated by the bands around its waist.

No idea what the function of this ritual scene was for??

Thanks Crusader. I am also not sure of the animal. But thanks for mentioning the bands, forgot that. It is an interesting piece. Someone rolled it up with a purpose, why? Offer?
Found both pieces on the same land, close to each other. Just always wondering if there is a connection. Dating says no, but....

 

[woody50]

As you say you have the back end of a horse that is no more than about 100 years old and....

The rolled up piece is of more interest. It not Roman looking, probably not Saxon (although a slim chance) but probably circa Late Medieval - 18th C. It will probably fall into the toys, trifles & trinkets bracket of finds. I will do a quick look.

Although I don't know much about the back end of the horse (dating), it's funny that I found both pretty close by. To me the horse part looks much older than 100 years, but I don't want to disagree with you at all. I am just pretty dumb about a lot of things... Thanks for your comment!

 

[woody50]

By the way, I did get the rolled up lead roll a bit loose, but it appears that it was a curved piece, so left it in that shape.