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English: A depiction of a clothed female statue discovered in 1714 in the Southbroom Hoard near Devizes, Wiltshire, from the figures decorating the margins of Moll's map of "Dorset Shire" (Dorset), the fifth in his Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales... The figure was placed on the map of a different county for want of room. Moll copied the figure's appearance and identification from Musgrave's 1719 account of the hoard.

This copper alloy statue is now held by the British Museum (1811,0309.6). Musgrave identified it as Figure 7 (M7) while Durham categorized it as #337. Musgrave and Moll left it unidentified, but scholars now think it shows a Mother Goddess, possibly related to Danu, Anu, or other Celtic figures. Both presented her head as wrapped in a kind of headscarf or turban, although the statue actually depicts her hair pulled back into a high bun. She wears a tunic and a pleated skirt rather longer and more modest than those on other figures from the hoard. She holds her hands around a wide belly, a pose shared by a few other surviving statues of the goddess.

Notes: These Houshold Gods in number 19 with a Medal of Alexander Severus were found at the Devizes An. 1714 and are supposed to have been bury'd there in 234. the Rest for want of Room are placed in Dorset and Hampshires yat are barren of Antiquities; we being unwilling to omit such great Curiosities.

London: Sold by H. Moll over-against Devereux-Court in the Strand; Tho. Bowles, Print and Map-Seller near the Chapter-House in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and J. Bowles Print and Map-Seller over-against Stocks-Market. 1724.