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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy terret ring, of lipped type. Roughly half of the hoop and the bar are missing due to an old break, now worn. The surviving half of the hoop is curvilinear and measures 52.5mm in length 6mm in width and c6mm in thickness. The hoop has a triangular cross-section and is decorated with two surviving lip-shaped mouldings. There would have originally have been a symmetrical arrangement of three lip-shaped mouldings when this terret ring was complete. Patches of active powdery green corrosion products can be seen. This terret ring is similar to other lipped examples from Suffolk e.g East Bergholt (see SF-1288), and Saham Toney Norfolk (Davies 1996, 71-73, fig 6). Terret rings date to the Iron Age, first century BC.
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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