Cast copper-alloy head of a Roman statuette found by metal detector in the Owslebury area, Hampshire.

Cast copper-alloy head of a Roman statuette found by metal detector in the Owslebury area, Hampshire.

Head of a bronze statuette

Roman

Found with a metal detector in the Owslebury area, Hampshire in 2001

Only the head now remains of what must once have been an impressive small statuette which may have been the centrepiece of a Romano-British family's household shrine.

Cast copper-alloy head of a Roman statuette found by metal detector in the Owslebury area, Hampshire.