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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy lipped terret ring of Late Iron Age to early Roman date. It comprises a flat bar that is rectangular in section and is mostly missing due to old breaks. The bar projects from the centre of a moulded vertical collar that is disc shaped with a flat face presented towards the bar and a rounded face away from the bar. It has a moulded circumferential lip and extends towards the centre of the ring, but projects less prominently from the outer edge. Running from the opposite side of the collar to the bar is preserved one section of the loop. This is circular in section, curved, and terminates in a lip-shaped moulding or collar that is set vertically and projects from the outer edge of the loop. On either side of the loop close to the bottom/outer edge are opposing single recesses that are circular in form and preserve the remains of inlaid red enamel. The lip-shaped moulding is in the form of two outwardly projecting discs, one of which is incomplete due to old breaks. The surviving disc has on its upper/inner face moulded decoration in the form of three circular or oval shaped bands, one inside the other. A groove separates this side from the opposing and incomplete collar that combined would have formed the distinctive lipped decoration of terret rings of this type. The beginning of a second section of loop is just visible at the base of the collar, and this indicates the probable original presence of three distinct sections of decorated loop separated by similar lipped collars. The fragment measures 43.30mm in length, 15.67mm in maximum width at the lipped collar, 9.91mm in diameter at the loop, and weighs 26.33g. This is a fragment from a terret ring that probably served as a decorative harness fitting on a chariot. Davies' study of Iron Age Norfolk indicates that this example is of the lipped variety (Davies, 1996: pp. 71, 73) and a close parallel in terms of form and decoration is noted in Macgregor from Rickinghall, Suffolk (Macgregor, 1976: Fig. 3.1). These indicate a 1st century BC/AD date for the current example, perhaps spanning the period c.50 BC to 100 AD.
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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