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Description: | A first century AD platform-decorated terret fragment. It has a central knop that has a faint circumferal groove around its body and four pelta shaped sunken cells set equally around the top. Two of the sunken cells are larger than the other two and have the apex of the pelta facing the external edges of the terret. The small sunken cells face at right angles to the two larger ones with the apexes facing each other. Either side of the knop roughly equal lengths of the loop remain, one though has a slight transverse ridge showing on the upper surface. Two triangular sunken cells joined by a median groove are seen on each section of the surviving loop. The cross-section of the loop is elipitical and was probably broken in antiquity as the brown patina is similiar all over the terret. The underside of the terret is plain but has a 'scratch' mark where it appears to have been struck by something such as farm machinery. | Subjects: | Platform-decorated terret | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Woodward, Kevin | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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