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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy covered loop Roman terret. The copper-alloy is very silvery in colour impling that it has a white metal coating or possibly a high tin content. The oval loop through which the rein would have passed is complete and measures 27.8mm in external width, 24mm in external height and 15.2mm in internal width and 13.5mm in internal height. Around the base of the loop there is a moulding. Then there is the 'skirt.' This is incomplete due to old breaks, it is pointed oval shape when viewed from above (40mm in length and 18mm in width), the points of the oval curve downwards and are incomplete, and projecting from the centre of the long edges of the oval there are incomplete roughly rectangular shaped projections (22mm in survivng length and 14mm in width). Underneath the 'skirt' are central corroded iron remains, presumably of an iron loop, these remains continue vertically and appear in a corroded mass inside the oval rein loop too. This is unusual, it may be that there was an iron bar running through the centre of the terret which terminated in a loop, now missing. No exact parallel could be found for this probable terret, due to the vertical iron remains through it and its silvery colour, however other covered loop terrets roughly of the same size and design have been discovered elsewhere is Suffolk, from Barnardiston, Cockfield, and Baylam.
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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