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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy flat-ring terret of later Iron Age date. Part of one side of the hoop survives, terminating at both ends in old breaks. It is oval in section, curved or crescentic in form and tapers towards one end where the fragment presumably originally joined the now missing bar. Both faces have identical moulded and enamelled decoration. This comprises on one face a continuous S-motif with pointed lobes, two of which survive. Each lobe has a large recessed central circle, which, like the surrounding recessed fields, contains traces of red enamel. The opposite face has an identical motif but with the S-motif reversed. The entire fragment measures 35.99mm in length, 15.99mm in width, 3.36mm in thickness and 5.45g in weight. This is an incomplete fragment from a flat-ring terret of Iron Age date. It finds parallels in terms of form and decoration in other examples from Suffolk, notably from Weybread and Westhall (Martin, 1978 (Proc. Suffolk Institute XXXIV): pp.. 137-140) and in clay mould fragments from Waldringfield (Rigby, 2013: pp. 24-37, notably no. WLD4). See also Hutcheson, 2004: no. 129. These indicate a 1st century BC/AD date for the current example, perhaps c.50 BC-43 AD or slightly later.
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