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HARNESS FITTING
Unique ID: LVPL-101A42
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A fragment of a cast copper alloy Romano-British lipped terret ring, dating from the late Iron Age or early Roman period, about 100 BC - AD 100. The object is curved with each end terminating with a break. It is oval in cross-section. There are five ovoid knops, two of which are incomplete, in the form of pouting lips spaced at regular intervals along the frame, each bisected by a longitudinal groove running down the centre. The object has a smooth olive green patina which has been damaged in places.
It can be classified as of Spratling's group V dating to the period c. 100 BC - AD 25.
Spratling, M, G, 1972, Southern British Decorated Bronzes of the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age, pp. 667, Fig. 8, nos. 36 & 37.
Class:
Terret
Sub class: lipped
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa 100 BC
Date to: Circa AD 25
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 41.94 mm
Width: 10.83 mm
Thickness: 9.33 mm
Weight: 16.4 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st September 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Kirton in Lindsey
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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