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Description: | Copper alloy and [probably] iron terret ring. Cast oval penannular ring with expanded, circumferentially grooved, collared flat ends. These probably expose the stubs of an internal iron ring, though treatment with oil by the finder has obscured this detail. There are three further bands of decoration, each comprising three circumferential ribs with the central one bifurcated and those two lines then oscillating to define a row of three linked oval cells. A similar series of linked oval cells set in sunken rectangular fields begins below the lowest and largest groups of ribs, and is continued along the outer surface of the terret between groups of ribbing. There are slight traces of enamel in the field between the oval figures and the edges of the rectangular fields which they follow, noted at one of the groups of ribs. These traces are now of a dull orange tint, though discoloured by recent treatment of the surface. There is now no colorant within the oval figures though they appear apt to receive it. The massive terret is an object type broadly dated to the 1st-4th century AD. The use of red enamel is a trait of Late Iron Age work, with polychrome enamel falling into the Roman period. The further details of colour scheme are here obscured, Suggested date: Roman, 40-400.Height: 46.4mm, Width: 59.5mm, Thickness (at collared ends): 15.9mm, Weight: 55.06gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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