Record ID: HAMP-E0BDBB
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete lipped decorated terret (rein ring) of Iron Age date c. 100 BC-100 AD, with La Tene style enamel decorations . The fragment is sub-circular in section, and would have originally been a sub-oval or D- shape, and features intergrally cast raised discoidal transverse moldings ( 2 sets of lips made up of four sub-oval projections).  One end of the ring is thicker than the other ( 10.70mm diameter vs 7.74mm diameter). The terret is decorated with two triangular cells on each lip ( a total of 8 triangular cells, 5 of which still contain  red enamel). There is a cast…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: HAMP-7BE8B8
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Bronze Age to Early Medieval copper alloy object, probably a ring, a terret ring or harness fitting of the Late Iron Age to Early Roman period, dating from c. BC 150 - c. AD 100.The ring is  circular in plan with a central perforation. In cross section the bead is oval with very smooth sides both on its exterior and in the central hole. It has a smooth and glossy medium green patina. The bead is decorated with punched dots in a single line around its circumference on both the front and back. 
Created on: Tuesday 25th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-E85B1E
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely corroded and abraded cast copper alloy fragment, possibly part of a ribbed terret or another type of object and dating broadly to the Iron Age to early Roman period, (300 BC - AD 100). The object is 33.3mm in length and is curved with a D-shaped cross section and a slightly concave underside. The object is moulded with two large globular knobs or lobes of 15.2mm diameter. One end has a narrower portion which ends in an old break, the other has a stump of a projection from the top of a knob and another break across a narrowed section, possibly a strap bar.
Created on: Monday 24th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 4th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hayling Island', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-0CEB8E
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early cast copper alloy strap-mounted simple D-shaped terret ring with a a bevelled lozengiform cross section comprised of three triangular ridges, one at the outer edge of the ring and on the flanking sides. These are separated by circumferential grooves. A stump of a strap bar with plano convex cross section remains and the ring has broken across this and on the opposite side. Circa mid 3rd century BC to first century AD.
Created on: Friday 28th May 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th November 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-DE58E9
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Iron Age/ early Roman (100 BC - AD 200) copper alloy miniature terret or harness fitting. It comprises an oval ring with a flat bar between two moulded-rib terminal ends and resembles a terret in shape. To the reverse this bar conceals a loop, projecting at 90 degrees to the ring and offset to one side. The ring is D-shaped in cross-section, being flat to the reverse, and expands from 2.3mmx1.6mm at the top (where it is worn) to max.7.2x3.4mm just before the terminal. The loop is rectangular and D-shaped in cross-section, its inside surface being flat. The loop measures 13.7mm …
Created on: Monday 21st October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 5th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-4069F7
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a late Iron Age to early Roman period (circa 100BC - AD 410), copper alloy strap-mounted terret. The fragment consists of a small section of the large circular loop with part of a separate rectangular loop extending below. The section of circular loop has a circular cross-section and is solid (measuring 7.4mm in diameter). It thickens slightly to 9.3mm diameter where the rectangular loop extends. At this point the main loop becomes U-shaped in cross-section, being hollow to the underside. The rectangular loop extends from the base of the circular loop by 10.4mm, bends a…
Created on: Friday 17th June 2016
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Owslebury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-4F588A
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of copper alloy terret, consisting of the saddle-form attachment bar only and dating from the later Iron Age to the Roman period (c. 300 BC - AD 200). It consists of a strip of metal, curved in profile, with a V-shaped cross-section: one face is concave with a central longitudinal ridge, while the other is convex and fluted. It is broken at either end (old breaks). The object has its widest part (15.2mm) at the centre, from where it narrows to 7.0mm wide at each end. The object is 52.75mm long with a maximum thickness of 5.6mm. It weighs 9.71g. Julie Shoemark, Norfolk FLO, c…
Created on: Tuesday 12th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bishops Waltham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-4F90C2
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Iron Age/ Early Roman (100 BC to 100 AD) copper alloy harness fitting in the form of a terret ring of Simple type. It measures 46.48x42.44x7.05mm and weighs 18.24g. The terret ring is oval in shape, its arms expanding a little at one end (from the circular cross-section at the centre of the arms, c.5mm in diameter) to c.5.7x5.8mm and holding a short narrowed bar between them, c.8mm long and 4.64x4.38mm in cross-section. The bar is rectangular in cross-section. The terminals of the arms are flanked by a c.3mm wide rib, c.7mm in diameter. The surface of the terret is heavily …
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2012
Last updated: Monday 18th November 2013
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Record ID: HAMP-B24165
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A corroded and incomplete cast copper-alloy probable strap union (harness fitting) of Late Iron Age/Romano-British date. It consists of a bar of sub-rectangular cross-section, broken at one end. At the other end is a terminal formed of a pair of conjoined bosses from the tops of which extend rounded tabs between which is a bar of circular cross-section. It is assumed that a strap would have been looped around the gap between the latter bar and the bosses. The main bar has a deep longitudinal groove running along the centre of its lower surface. This is far more shallow as it divides t…
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-899B32
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper-alloy mini terret, dating to the late Iron Age/early Roman periods. The terret is sub-circular in plan, with a flattened attachment side, and is D-shaped in cross section, with a flat lower surface (Int. W.: 13.3mm, L.: 12.2mm, Th.: 3.3mm). The flattened side which would have taken a strap is narrowed and recessed (L.: 9.6mm). It is flanked by knops or collars at the junction with the hoop. The object has corroded to a light-green colour with a dark-green patina where it survives. Similar examples can be found on this database, refs. NMS-032B00, YORYM-6BDBA4.
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-5287B5
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Published
A corroded but complete late Iron Age to early Roman (1st century BC to 1st Century AD), cast copper-alloy strap union of Taylor and Brailsford's (1985, 247) Type 1. It is formed of two conjoined openwork circles arranged one upon the other in a figure of eight, with a projecting narrowed strap bar on the two longest edges. The strap bars are elongated U shapes and join at the mid-point of each openwork circle. One of the bars is recessed and bowes out slightly. The back of the union is flat while the upper surface is moulded. The strap-fitting has a dark-brown patina with small pa…
Created on: Sunday 29th January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Remenham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-88E571
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a corroded, cast copper-alloy terret (rein guide) dating from the late Iron Age or early Roman periods. This comprises around a third of the hoop, and has been broken just after the bar begins, and just beyond a protruding moulded platform, of the 'cushion lobed' form. The hoop terminates in a broadly rectangular 'skirt' (19.2 by 17.2mm), squashed in on one side. Vestiges of the bar within the skirt suggest that it was thin, rectangular in cross-section with rounded corners. The bar has been pressed up against the side of the skirt. The loop is sub-circular in cross-se…
Created on: Tuesday 20th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 21st September 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-9A8A71
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a corroded, cast copper-alloy terret (rein guide) dating from the late Iron Age or early Roman periods. This comprises around half of the hoop, and has been broken at the junction of hoop and bar, and the middle of the central pair of back-to-back sub-hemispherical lipped protrusions, respectively. The collar at the junction of hoop and bar is broadly sub-oval: 11.9 by 10.8mm. Vestiges of the bar suggest that it was rectangular in cross-section with rounded corners. The oval loop is circular in cross-section. It would have featured three pairs of lipped protrusions by co…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2011
Last updated: Thursday 4th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fair Oak and Horton Heath CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-D4EFE1
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy terret dating from the late Iron Age or early Roman periods. This comprises a section both of the hoop and the bar, and as a result their junction. The collar at the junction is broadly circular: 11.35 by 9.95 by 3.45mm. The bar is narrowed and rectangular with rounded corners in cross-section: 18.6 by 6.0 by 3.9mm. The extant section of oval loop is triangular in cross-section with rounded corners; it has a flat internal surface and bevelled upper surface. Running along the centre of the upper surface is a double ridge with central groove. The loop na…
Created on: Thursday 20th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-7794C4
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn but complete cast copper-alloy strap junction dating to the Late Iron Age to Early Roman period. It comprises three conjoined loops; centrally between the two upper loops and above the bottom loop is a highly celticised human head. The head is convex with hollow reverse and crudely rendered, albeit wear might obscure some original features; only the two punched eyes are now obvious. The face measures 14.4mm long and 9.05mm wide. The loops have diameters ranging from c. 14.8 - 15.8mm. Such tri-looped strap junctions have been found elsewhere and often depict either a human face …
Created on: Friday 14th July 2006
Last updated: Sunday 5th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buriton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP792
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cheek-piece with rectangular panel in centre, slightly waisted circular-sectioned arm either side, expanding out slightly to a flattened end. Central rectangular perforation (21 x 7mm). Upper surface of central panel is decorated with an incised 'X', at either side of which are two parallel vertical incised lines with diagonal incised lines between. Incised groove running around the edge of each terminal.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HAMPSHIRE SOUTH WONSTON', grid reference and parish protected.