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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy harness fitting (terret) dating from the late Iron Age to Early Roman periods, (c 100 BC - AD 100). Terrets consisted of a hoop and a bar, and were attached to the yoke of a cart or chariot. Between the loop and bar was often a ring or 'stop', attached on one side to the hoop, and on the other to the bar. There might also be knops or other decorative features on the hoop. This item is probably one of the latter, with part of the hoop attached. The main part (disc) of the item is flat, and circular, 31.10mm in diameter, with the hoop attached at one edge to the reverse. The reverse is without decoration, the hoop, oval in cross section (21.08mm in width), is also without decoration except it ends in an old break at a semi circumferential knop or collar, 28.25mm from the disc. This knop, also oval in cross section, may have been poorly cast, this being the reason for the break. Attached to the front of the disc is a further oval extension (presumably the hoop extending further) but it has broken off immediately in front of the disc.The front of the disc is decorated with two triangular inserts with curved edges, filled with red enamel, either side of a tear drop shaped insert which must also have once had a filling, now missing. An incised line surrounds the disc and each insert.The whole item is 41.48mm long. It weighs 12.68grams.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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