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HARNESS FITTING

Unique ID: SF-834926

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

An incomplete very worn copper-alloy terret or rein ring Iron Age and circa 1st century in date. Only the lower half of this terret, the bar and fragments of the loop, survives. It measures c50mm in width and c23mm in surviving height. The bar is rectangular in shape and flat on both faces there are then rounded transverse ridges where the bar joins the loop. The fragments of the loop are oval in cross-section and tapering towards their incomplete terminals, there is no sign of any mouldings, either lips, knobs or wings on the sides so this may be a simple terret (Davies 1996, 71). Interestingly most of the wear occurs on one inner curve where the bar meets the side, this is therefore a heavily used terret and the wear was presumably caused by the rubbing of the reins through the loop whilst in use.

Class: terret

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 10 BC
Date to: Circa AD 100

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 50 mm
Width: 23 mm
Weight: 21.74 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st May 2005

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Breckland (District)
To be known as: Old Buckenham

Spatial coordinates

Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Davies, J.	1996	Where Eagles dare: Iron Age Norfolk			71

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Recording Institution: SF
Created: 18 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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