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A bodiless clay headland of the Roman god Mercury , find in England , has revealed the whereabouts of a antecedently unknown R.C. colonization .
Archaeologists found the head at Smallhythe Place , in Kent , a site that was known for shipbuilding in gothic time . So the squad was surprised to discover the roughly 2,000 - year - old organ pipe - remains head of Mercury , the Romanic god of hunky-dory arts , commerce and financial success .
The 2,000-year-old head depicting Mercury, the Roman god of fine arts, commerce and financial success, that was found in Kent.
The " incredibly rare " head , as well as other find from an excavation , point that a Roman colonization stick out there between the first and third century , according to astatementfrom the National Trust , a conservation charity .
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Typically , Mercury statuette were crafted out of metal , making the tube - mud — a fine , whitened clay used in later hundred to make tobacco pipe — find unexpected . At the time , most piping - Henry Clay figurines were molded from Lucius DuBignon Clay that was local to key Gaul ( modern - day France ) and the Rhin - et - Mosell region , according to the statement . Today , archaeologists know of fewer than 10 pipe - Lucius Clay figurines in Roman Britain , and most feature distaff god , such as Venus , according to the program line .
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During Britain ’s popish period ( A.D. 43 to 410 ) , it was mutual for both average and elite people to worship figurines depicting deities in their homes , as religion was a key part of daily lifespan . This particular Mercury figurine , which shows Mercury outwear a hat , likely evidence the god standing in one of two ways : either draped with a short cloak sleep together as a chlamys , or naked and take a caduceus , a staff with distorted snakes that nowadays symbolizes music .
The brain of Mercury , as well as other finds from the website , will go on showing Feb. 28 at Smallhythe Place .
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