Scholars generally believe that he was born sometime around 373 AD in Roman Britain.
Analysis suggests they were buried about 100 years later, in what experts have described as a turbulent time for Roman Britain.
The cockerel was found during excavation work at the former Bridges Garage site on Tetbury Road in Cirencester - once the second largest town in Roman Britain.
"As this horde finishes with the coins of Tiberius, it could date to either the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43, or possibly the Boudicca revolt in AD 61, it's difficult to say either way, " said Mr Marsden.
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Lullingstone, a prosperous farm occupied for more than 300 years, is said to be one of the most complete Roman villas discovered in Britain.
Roman Abramovich, the owner of Britain's Chelsea football club, also owns the Eclipse.
To enthusiasts, the midpoint stood out - 410, the year that the hard-pressed Roman empire abandoned all claims to Britain.
Britain's most senior Roman Catholic Church cleric has called for Christians to wear a cross every day.
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"It's fairly run of the mill for sites but it gives you something in your hand which showed the time Britain was part of the Roman Empire and puts us into the wider context, " he said.
Cardinal Keith O'Brien was Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric when he resigned last Monday as the Archbishop of St Andrew's and Edinburgh and said he would not take part in the election for a successor to Pope Benedict.
The news about the timing of the conclave comes as the Pope accepted the resignation of the Roman Catholic Church's highest cleric in Britain, Cardinal Keith O'Brien.
Other finds turned up in the course of excavations for the rail route include bones from prehistoric animals, Bronze Age and Roman tools, and the largest piece of amber ever uncovered in Britain.
Describing the find as "hugely significant" experts said the man had died around the time of the collapse of Roman Londinium in the City and the decision by the Romans to abandon Britain.
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This particular figurine is one of only four ever found in Britain, with a total of eight known from the whole of the Roman Empire.
It is entirely appropriate to remember a great, no-nonsense Englishman, the Lord Protector Cromwell, instituted the Commonwealth of Great Britain long before the French or American revolutions, and he showed us a model without that Greco-Roman name of republic.
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