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Description: | A fragment of a worn copper-alloy Iron Age terret or rein ring. A fragment of the hoop and one large decorative moulding survive, the rest of this terret is missing due to old breaks. The surviving fragment measures 22.4mm in length and the hoop, with a worn circular cross-section, measures 8.1mm in diameter. The decorative moulding consists of a large lip-shape running longitudinally along the outer face of the hoop with two more smaller lip shapes running transversely around the hoop arranged diagonally so that they meet at the inner edge of the hoop and then terminate at the outer edge of the hoop at either end of the larger lip. The larger longituditudinal moulding measures 17.5mm in length, 7.9mm in height and 8.3mm in width, the outer face has a longitudinal groove along its centre. The smaller mouldings around the hoop measure 14.9mm in width and 11.2mm in height.
This terret ring fragment 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. | 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: | -300
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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