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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy terret. At the top the terret has a circular hoop which is oval cross-section. The hoop has an external diameter of 18mm and an internal measurement of 12mm wide and 11mm high. The hoop displays a heavy wear facet on the top of the outer perimeter of the hoop. The internal perimeter of the hoop at the bottom is also fairly worn. The hoop is positioned above an integral ?skirt? which has worn knops at each terminal. The skirt has a semi-circular profile and consists of two sub-triangular faces sitting below a moulded collar that seperates the skirt from the hoop. The skirt terminals flanking the hoop are both incomplete and are likely to have terminated with knops. Underneath the skirt there is a worn and broken circular moulding in the copper alloy, which is surrounded with iron corrosion. This is probably the remains of an attachment loop or bar. One face of the underside of the skirt also displays four longitudinal grooves that may be decoration or wear facets. One face of the skirt has been distorted inwards and the surface displays small cracks as a consequence of stress in the metal. This pattern of wear is also found on a larger skirted terret, recorded on this database as NMGW-7D0AA5.
The surface patina of the terret is noticeably different on one side to the other. One has an even green smooth original surface with large patches of copper corrosion and wear, whilst the other is much more worn and damaged, with patches of reddish corrosion. This may be indicative of original wear patterns or post-depositional features.
The small size of the terret ring would allow it to be classed as a mini terret. At the time of writing no other examples of skirted mini terrets are known. | 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
199 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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