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English: A complete copper alloy zoomorphic (dogs head) tubular ewer spout of later medieval date (1400-1500 AD).

The spout is sub-rectangular in plan with a sub-triangular profile.

It measures 60.6 mm in length, 18.7 mm width, is 59.0 mm high and weighs 71.4grams.

The spout can be divided into two distinct areas. The first area is at the rear of the spout; this is undecorated and consists of a swan neck with a large sub-rectangular / irregular oval opening, which measures 53.1 mm in length and 16.9 mm in width, the metal here is 4.0 mm thick. This part of the spout would have been soldered onto the copper alloy body. The second area is at the front of the spout; this area is decorated with a cast zoomorphic dog head design consisting of two raised concave areas (ears) and two concave panels (eyes). The nose / snout of the dog is shown by two further concave panels. A hollow cylindrical pipe extends from the mouth (and is gripped by the jaws) of the dog; it is through this that the liquid would have been poured. The pipe has an external diameter of 10.4 mm and internal of 4.5 mm.

The spout is a mid grey green colour with an even surface patina.

A ewer with a similar spout is shown in J.M. Lewis' paper 'Bronze Aquamaniles and Ewers' (1987: Finds Research Group Datasheet 7, pp 4-5 fig 8a). This example is from a later pedestal-base ewer discovered in the moat at Cardiff Castle and dated to the 15th century. Several other similar ewer spouts have been recorded on the PAS database including: WAW-E70D15, HESH-1394B2, WMID-4EB603 and HESH-0A8381.