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Description: | A copper-alloy lipped terret dating from the Late Iron Age to early Roman period (c. 0-75 AD). The cast, circular-sectioned hoop, diminishing from diameter 7.3mm to 6.4mm as it rises, with a bar of flat-based oval section and a collars separating the bar from the hoop. Three lipped motifs are equidistantly spaced around the ring, each with a plain band in the middle. There is discernible thickening on the back of each motif, though they are not carried within the ring, and there is the suspicion of ferrous corrosion intermittently within the hoop, though there is no evidence for the explosion of an iron core sheathed by copper alloy. The parallels for the type are mainly of 1st-century AD date, the distribution was (in 1976) predominantly southern, though a group in a hoard from Stanwick was dated to circa AD 70. (MacGregor 1976, 44-45, no. 63, map 8). The terret is 63.9mm wide, 49.3mm high, 12.3mm thick, the diameter of the hoop is 7.3mm with a weight of 54.82gms.
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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