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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy covered loop terret, measuring 32.10mm in surviving length. The oval loop, through which the rein would have passed is incomplete due to an old break. The loop has an oval cross-section and flares towards its base, it measures 29.40mm in external width and 9.98mm in external surviving height, the loop is 6.46mm in thickness.
A short rectangular neck is decorated with one transverse moulding. Beneath this is the 'skirt'which covers the integral copper-alloy loop, The 'skirt' is incomplete and now measures 34.18mm by 25.80mm in size. The 'skirt' has been shaped and has a scalloped edge, now worn, to represent the petals of a flower, with two larger downwards sloping front and back petals, one of which is bent downwards further than the other, and two smaller side petals, which would have been upwards curving when complete. All the petals have traces of incised grooves running down them.
Beneath the 'skirt' projecting from the centre of the underside of the base of the loop is a rectangular shaped integral loop, with a square cross-section and measuring 24.20mm by 14.11mm externally and in 15.19mm by 10.23mm internally.
Other Roman covered loop terrets have been found elsewhere in Suffolk at Baylam, Cockfield, Suffolk but the closest parallel, with the same shaped 'petals' with decorative incisions is from Aldeburgh, see SF-A449D4. A bronze harness trace from the Roman fort of South Shields also has a similar 'skirt' and is dated to the mid first century AD (Miket and Allason-Jones 1984, 115, 126 fig 73, no 101). | Subjects: | terret | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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