Friday, February 26, 2021

Gentlemen's Grooming: "Unearthed figurine suggests ancient Britons favoured mullets"

From the Guardian:

Archaeologists say figure found in National Trust dig could represent 1st-century man or Celtic deity

A tiny figurine found by archaeologists on the proposed site of a car park may provide a unique insight into the popular hairstyles among the native men of Roman-era Britain, with moustaches and mullets – with a neat back and sides – being the cut of the day.

The 5cm-high copper alloy figure was found in 2018 during excavation work on the National Trust’s Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire, and experts say the discovery either gives us a rare glimpse into ordinary Britons’ appearance or their imagined gods.

Shannon Hogan, the National Trust archaeologist for the east of England, told the Guardian the figure was originally thought to be a Celtic deity but now experts believe it could “very well reflect the face of your average man”....

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And twenty centuries later, though he had to travel to Australia:

British man wins world’s best mullet at ‘Mulletfest’ 

As the mulletheads say, "Business up front, party in the back."