Copper-alloy, 15.04 grams, 41.61 mm. 1st-2nd century AD. A bird with wings spread modelled in the round, with panels of incised linear decoration on the wings and tail and pecked texturing on the back and neck. The eyes and beak are carefully executed. The cast pendant loop emerges from the bird's back. Subsequently a copper-alloy rivet was driven through the bird's right shoulder, emerging centrally on the underside and enabling the pendant to be permanently fixed to a solid surface. The pendant's design appears to be derived from types of Roman bird-brooch. Reference: cf. bird-brooches in Hattatt, R. Iron Age and Roman Brooches, Oxford, 1985, item 625 and Brooches of Antiquity, Oxford, 1987, items 1150-2. Very fine condition. Provenance: found Thetford, Norfolk, England.