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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy terret ring of probable Late Iron Age date. Part of the bar and hoop survive intact, the remainder of the object missing due to old breaks. The bar is flat, rectangular in form, triangular in section and measuring 7.40mm in width, 6.88mm in length and 4.05mm in thickness. Where the bar joins the hoop there is a raised oval shaped collar or stop that extends into the hoop itself producing an almost trumpet-shaped profile. The tapering side of the hoop is sub-oval shaped in section, slightly pitted in places and terminating in old breaks to preserve approximately one quarter of the hoop. The entire object measures 33.92mm in surviving width, 30.81mm in height, 9.72mm in thickness at stops, 4.61mm in thickness at breaks, and weighs 12.40g.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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