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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy terret, with an incomplete ovate loop with three spherical knops remaining on the exterior, at the four 'corners', making it look sub-rectangular in profile. The loop is oval in section and tapers to a circular section at the two broken ends. The base of the loop is attached directly, without a neck, to a 'skirt' below which is rectangular in plan and trapezoidal in profile. There is a horizontal groove where the base of the loop meets the top of the flaring skirt, and a parallel groove at the base of the skirt. The skirt is hollow and would have possibly protected a lower loop would have projected from the centre of the inside of the skirt, but very little remains apart from one small oval projection that is off-centre and the curved side edges of the skirt, but these may be due to wear. The rein would have passed through this loop and the skirt would have been attached to a wooden yoke (see notes). This terret ring is a variant, somewhere between the 'standard' and the covered loop type (Ralph Jackson pers comm).Similar skirted examples can be seen from Suffolk, such as SF-6C4522, and others with incomplete skirts and lower loops from Essex, such as ESS-C03D13. Locally the closest parallel is a terret ring from a Roman fort, CORN-EE30A8. A bronze harness trace from the Roman fort of South Shields also has a similar 'skirt' and is dated from the mid first century AD (Miket and Allason-Jones 1984, 115, 126, Fig.73, No.101). This particular type of 'skirted' terret ring generally dates from the 1st to the 2nd century AD.Foreign parallels include Roman terrets which were either excavated or detected from sites in the Rhine Delta in Johan Nicolay's 'Armed Batavians Use and Significance of Weaponry and Horse Gear from Non-Military Contexts in the Rhine Delta' (50 BC to AD 450) 2007, page 226, Fig.6.7, Nos.1-3 (Sally Worrell pers comm).Jackson (1990) illustrates a terret ring with similar moulded spherical knops from Camerton in Somerset on page 33, Plate 5, No.56, which is dated from the 1st century AD.
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