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Description: | Very corroded terret, of 'covered-loop' type. The loop is a curved bar which is still intact. There is a 'skirt' which comes down towards both faces of the loop; on one face the skirt is incomplete, but on the other it has two incurved edges meeting at a point. The skirt extends upwards into a projection which is then broken, but which may originally have ended in another loop, this time for a rein to pass through. There are hints of grooves around the base of this projection. The patina is an iron-like brown colour, with small fragments of a deep brown surface; underneath the brown is pale green corrosion which may be active, so the terret should be kept as dry as possible. A terret was fixed onto a cart in order to hold the reins. Usually they are Iron Age, but the covered-loop type is Roman. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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