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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy probable Roman covered loop terret. The oval loop, through which the rein would have passed is extremely fragmentary and worn due to old breaks, only the lower worn fragment of it survives. The loop has an oval cross-section and there is a hole, due to corrosion through its base. Below the fragmentary loop is a 'skirt' consisting of four worn incomplete arms, each one is rectangular in shape and curving downwards and has a concave back face and rounded front face. There may have been another seperate probably iron loop beneath the 'skirt' originally although no traces of this now survive. The surviving 'skirt' measures 59.84mm in width, 24.83mm in thickness and the terret is 35.60mm in surviving height.Other Roman covered loop terrets have been found elsewhere in Suffolk at Baylam, Cockfield, and Aldeburgh, see SF-A449D4. These parallels are more complete and have more petal shaped 'skirts' but their general form is the same. A bronze harness trace from the Roman fort of South Shields also has a similar 'skirt' and is dated to the mid first century AD (Miket and Allason-Jones 1984, 115, 126 fig 73, no 101).
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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