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Description: | A fragment of a corroded, cast copper-alloy terret (rein guide) dating from the late Iron Age or early Roman periods. This comprises around half of the hoop, and has been broken at the junction of hoop and bar, and the middle of the central pair of back-to-back sub-hemispherical lipped protrusions, respectively. The collar at the junction of hoop and bar is broadly sub-oval: 11.9 by 10.8mm. Vestiges of the bar suggest that it was rectangular in cross-section with rounded corners. The oval loop is circular in cross-section. It would have featured three pairs of lipped protrusions by comparison with the published example quoted below; as implied, one-and-a half of these survive. They are spaced unequally, with those above the bar closer to the bar than they are to those that would have been at the centre. Those above the bar survive best and have a recess between them. They begin with a transverse ridge either side of the recess. The ridges are decorated with neatly incised longitudinal lines. Only above the 'lips' (towards the centre of the hoop) is a similar arrangement of recess, then decorated ridge. Again, there is a ridge, then recess, before the extant central lip. All three 'lips' were decorated with red enamel within a pair of sub-circular recesses. The 'lips' near the bar are larger ((14.8 by 17.4 (across both) by 15.0mm) than those at the centre of the hoop. They are also set off centre on the hoop. Between the 'lips' (and the recesses/ridges) the outer surface of the hoop is decorated with four pairs of back-to-back triangular cells also filled with red enamel. There appears to be an incised line below the tips of the triangles; on one side it is obscured by corrosion. There also appear to be incised lines delineating each triangular cell; much of the detail is again obscured. The single 'lip' beyond is small, as implied above, measuring 11.0 by 10.2mm. By contrast to the pair of 'lips' this latter is located centrally on the hoop. The fragment has corroded to a variable mid-green colour. It has been bent slightly in profile. For a lipped terret with a similar decorative treatment from Snettisham, Norfolk, see Jope (2000, 308; ref. 288-289 r-s).
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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