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Object type: Animal-head label stop
Measurements: H. 28.5 cm (11.2 in); W. 12.4 cm (4.9 in); D. 17.4 cm (6.8 in)
Stone type: Probably oolite but too inaccessible to examine closely. Probably Cleeve Cloud Member, Birdlip Limestone Formation, Inferior Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic.
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 157-8, 170-4, 788; Fig. 26G
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 177
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The animal head is slab-sided with a straight-cut, slightly tapering muzzle. The front of the face is lightly defined with a slightly rounded muzzle twisted a little to the south and rising through a low brow to the forehead. The top of the head is triangular in shape and the chamfered edge carries incised curving lines which are probably the remains of a fringe. The ears are not defined at all. Faint shapes survive across the top of the crest that rises from behind the creature's head and, as with the southern head of this pair (no. 11), these may be rudimentary versions of the lobed cresting that appears on some of the other Deerhurst animal heads.
See nos. 10 and 11.
