The clay pipe figurine of Venus was found during excavations at St Dunstan’s Terrace, which took place from December 2001 to March 2002. The site lies within a known Roman cemetery that flanks London Road and St Dunstan’s Street. In total, 23 inhumations and at least 92 cremation burials were discovered. Most of these consisted of burials of cinerary urns accompanied by one or more other vessels, although some cremations were aceramic and two involved wooden caskets. Other grave goods included the remains of hobnailed shoes (caligae), a circular copper alloy mirror, three copper alloy brooches and a small number of glass beads. ​The Venus figurine was found within a cremation burial. She was positioned almost vertically in the ground with her head pointed downwards. The figurine head was broken off in antiquity and was found 150–200mm to the west of its body, which suggests possible ritual decapitation. The feet were also broken off and missing. This indicates that the figurine was probably damaged and incomplete prior to deposition, though the feet may have been removed by post-Roman plough action due to their proximity to the ground surface. ​The clay pipe horse was found during excavations at St George’s Clocktower in 1991. Previous excavations at the site in the 1940s had revealed a Roman apsidal building in this area, which was built in the third century AD on the site of a previous large timber town house. ​Later excavations identified substantial mid third-century occupation layers and courtyard metalling that was associated with episodes of rebuilding or repair of adjacent buildings. The horse figurine was recovered from one of these substantial occupation layers along with a bronze mirror. The figurine may relate to Epona, who was a Gallo-Roman goddess who was the protector of horses, ponies, donkeys and mules. The bronze Dioscorus figurine is a representation of either Castor or Pollux, who were the twin sons of Jupiter by Leda. It is probably of southern Italian origin and dates from c 300 BC. An object of such antiquity is likely to have been a treasured amulet. The object depicts a youth wearing a pileus, or conical cap, with his right arm aloft, carrying what might be a torch in his right arm. Late Classical bronze figurines of this type were popular with soldiers in the first centuries BC or AD, and it is probably a copy of this popular form. ​The figurine was found during excavations at St John’s Lane in 1986, during which a large high-status Roman-period timber-framed building of early second-century date was revealed. This building may have extended to Roman Watling Street, and it overlay early Roman/late Iron Age rubbish pits and stake-hole scatters. ​The final object is that of a bronze figurine representing Jupiter holding his fulmen (thunderbolt) in his right hand. It was found during excavations in early 2010 and 2011 at the former Hallett’s Garage site in the St Dunstan’s area of Canterbury. The site is the location of a large, late Roman inhumation cemetery. ​Although an unstratified find, the object can be dated to the second or third century AD. It was probably intended as a grave good as it was found associated with a child burial that was disturbed or truncated by medieval, post-medieval and modern activities. Parallel figurines depict Jupiter with a spear in his raised left hand. This has been lost for our example.