figurine

Cast copper-alloy Romano-British figurine of a captive in a seated posture with a chain around the neck. The figures arms are raised and bound together at the wrist with the same length of chain leading from the neck, and this continues down to the shins; the feet are missing and so it is unclear whether the feet too were once depicted as bound. The figure sits in an exaggerated hunched posture to allow a piercing down through the back for an iron rod, only corrosion products of which are now left. The purpose of the figurine is unclear, as it to what it was once attached, but some connection with slavery seems likely.