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Description: | ?IA Cast Ae ?terret. This object when complete would have been circular. Two-thirds of it have been recovered, and one third is missing. Around the ring there are a series of hook like projections. It seems that there was a pair of these on either side, and a pair at the top. Whether there was a pair of hooks at the ?bottom?, or whether the ring gave way to an attachment bar is not clear as this section of the ring is missing. If this artefact is a terret, it rather unusual as the ring is D-sectioned, i.e. flat on one side. The projections do come out from the centre of the ring, but rather lay flush with the flat side.
Quite what this artefact was and its date is unclear. If it is a terret, it is likely to date from c 2nd century BC ? 2nd century AD. | 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: | -200
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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