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Description: | Covered-loop terret made of copper alloy and iron. The protective ??skirt?? is made of cast copper alloy and consists of two ovals, each with a knob in one long side. Below the skirt is a mass of corroded iron; the X-ray shows an iron loop running longitudinally, parallel to the long axis of the ovals making up the skirt and not transversely from knob to knob. The other long sides of the ovals are attached to two horn-like projections which end in similar knobs. The effect is to make each side of the terret look almost like a bull??s head, with the knob on the skirt forming the nose, and horns above. There is another mass of corroded iron between the ??horns??. This area is less clear on the X-ray, but probably originally was an iron loop running from horn to horn parallel to the iron loop below the skirt. Cf. Verulamium vol. I, no. 127. | Subjects: | Covered-loop Terret | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hinds, Katie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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