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Description: | A complete copper-alloy cast in one mini terret, or rein ring. It has a D-shaped hoop and measures 24mm in width and 20mm in height externally and 16mm in width and 13mm in height internally. The D-shaped hoop becomes narrower towards its top and wider towards the horizontal bar, which has a transverse raised moulding on either side of it. The front face of the terret is rounded and the back face flat, the terret is therefore half round in section. The surface of the terret is pitted due to corrosive action. Similar mini terrets have been found in Iron Age graves in Kirkburn, Yorkshire, although these parallels are slightly larger, measuring 32mm in width. The mini-terret is believed to have been designed to take a strap, possibly a belt.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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