*Horse's Head
*Horse's Head
*Horse's Head

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A stone carving of a horse's head with a bridle. The horse's head sculpture came from the site of a temple on the west side of Watling Street (the main north-south road through Viroconium), not far north of the point where the road turns south west towards the site of a crossing over the River Severn. Coins and pottery suggest that the temple was built during the second quarter of the second century CE, during a period of active urbanisation throughout the province of Britannia. Wroxeter, as the tribal capital of the Cornovii, was redesigned in a grand Roman style, with a large forum and public baths, and temples to Roman gods.

English Heritage, Wroxeter Roman City

Shrewsbury

Title

*Horse's Head

Date

AD 43–AD 410

Medium

stone & mortar

Measurements

H 32 x W 20 x D 25 cm

Accession number

78070039

Work type

Sculpture

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English Heritage, Wroxeter Roman City

Wroxeter, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY5 6PJ England

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