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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy cast in one mini terret, or rein ring. It would have had a D-shaped hoop when complete but now less than half of the loop survives. It measures 29.2mm in external height and 15.8mm in internal height, the loop is 10.5mm in width. The D-shaped hoop becomes narrower towards its top and wider towards the now missing horizontal bar, one transverse raised moulding survives, there would originally have been one side on either side of the horixontal bar. The terret is flat and is 3.6mm in thickness, There are dots and lightly scratched curvlinear lines which may be original but are now obscured by wear and corrosion. There is also a central groove around the edge of the loop. Similar mini terrets have been found in Iron Age graves in Kirkburn, Yorkshire, although these parallel have a half-round section rather than a flat one and no decoration. The mini-terret is believed to have been designed to take a strap (Stead, 1991, 44-47, fig 37, no 2, fig 38, no 2).
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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