File:Medieval, Incomplete zoomorphic ewer spout (xray) (FindID 586357).jpg

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

The spout is sub-rectangular in shape with a sub-circular cross section.

It measures 46.6 mm in length, 19.8 mm width and is 19.4 mm thick. It weighs 58.5 g.

Only the zoomorphic spout area is present, the concave swan neck, which would have attached to the ewer body is missing. The spout is decorated with a zoomorphic dog head design consisting of two raised concave areas (ears) and two concave panels (eyes). A central ridge, 2.62mm wide, is present on the crown of the head, between the two ears. 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 15.0 mm and internal of 8.0 mm.

The spout is a mid green colour with an even but abraded patina which covers all surfaces. Corrosion products or a concretion from the burial environment has covered all the surface, hiding some of the surface details from view.

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.