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Description: | A worn and incomplete cast copper-alloy terret ring of uncertain form and of Iron Age date. The integrally cast bar and part of the hoop to either side are preserved, the remainder of the hoop now missing due to old breaks. The bar is flat, rectangular in form, measuring 19.59mm in width, 9.14mm in length and 4.13mm in thickness. At each end of the bar where it joins the hoop is a raised sub-circular stop that extends into the hoop itself producing an almost trumpet-shaped profile. The tapering sides of the hoop are sub-oval shaped in section with a slight ridge at the centre of the outer edge, both sides terminating in approximately the same position in old breaks. There is no trace of any moulded or enamelled decoration and the surfaces have a pitted dark green patina. It measures 57.95mm in surviving width, 25.30mm in height, 12.73mm in thickness at stops, 4.90mm in thickness at breaks, and weighs 21.39g.This is a worn copper-alloy terret ring of Iron Age date. The lack of most of the hoop makes close identification of its precise form problematic but it may fall into Hutcheson's plain or simple terret group similar to her no. 76 (Hutcheson, 2004: no. 76). It is of Iron Age date, c.3rd century BC-1st century 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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