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Description: | Copper-alloy terret, probably of flat-ring type. Late Iron Age or early Roman, c.mid 1st century AD . Incomplete. Maximum width: 49.6mm; maximum length: 23.2mm(measured transverse to the width measurement); maximum thickness: 5.4mm; mass: 10.8g. The fragment consists of an arc shaped plate with a thickened, tapering inner edge which has an oval cross-section. The thickened edge is broken at both ends. All other edges of the fragment are broken.The fragment has a well developed brown patina, but where this has been lost, particularly on one side of the front and reverse, the surface is pitted and green. The terret is decorated on both sides with an incised palmette and scroll design with reserved fields inlaid with purple and opaque red glass. Elements of the design are filled with dots. The palmette and scroll design is similar to number 14 from a horse trapping in West Hall, Suffolk (Fox, 1958, fig. 83 and p. 149). The terret is similar to harness fittings from London and Norton, Suffolk, which also have inlaid opaque red-glass (Jope, 2000: Pl. 297). Jody Joy, Curator of Iron Age Antiquities at the British Museum comments that the filling of the design motifs with dots is unusual; there is a terret from Cawston, Norfolk with a simple design and dotted infilling (Palk 1988: No 308) (Jope 2000: Pl. 294). One of the elaborate enamelled mounts/large strap unions from Polden Hills also has some dotted motifs.
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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