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Description: | From Thoroton: A small copper alloy ring was retrieved from the north-west corner of the ditch demarcating Enclosure 2 (Fig 27, no 6). It was recovered from the top 50mm spit as this feature had been truncated prioir to excavation would have been deposited after the ditch had silted to approximately half if original depth. This ring is a common Iron Age type, but cannot be closely dated., From Thoroton: The object displays a green surface patina, and was manufactured from a thin strip of metal which is widened towards the centre. The terminals overlap to form a spiral. The widened outer face is decorated along either edge by a line of small, oval punch impressions. These are closely but irregularly spaced, and peter out towards the terminals. The ring is a common Iron Age type but cannot be closely dated. Rings of comparable form have been recorded on a large number of sites (e.g Maiden Castle, Dorset and Garton Station, Yorkshire) but examples with comparable punched decoration are comparatively rare (e.g Glastonbury, Somerset and Hunsbury, Northamptonshire),
Accession number: NCM 1996-462/33 | Temporal: | 700BC-40 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | Trent and Peak Archaeology | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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