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Medieval plaster figurine (St. Catherine)
Head missing. Probably the model for the matrix from which a bronze figure was cast.
Unglazed pipeclay figurine of St Catherine, 1400s. Made from a two piece mould. It was found at Newtown, mid-Wales.
SC3.4
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
36.149
Find Information
Site Name: Newtown, Powys
Collection Method: chance find
Date: 1935
Notes: found 'when the new smithfield (market) was made...between the road and railway.'
Acquisition
donation, 19/3/1936
Measurements
height / mm:78
maximum width / mm:31
width / mm
maximum thickness / mm:24
thickness / mm
Material
Plaster
Location
location verified by SI
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