Record ID: SF-BC1DFC
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy fragment originating from a terret ring of uncertain type, dating to the Late Iron Age or Early Roman period, c. 100 BC- 100 AD. Only around 30-40% of the terret survives, the extant fragment consisting the very edge of the strap bar and one side of the object, truncated at both ends in old breaks. Curving in plan and broadly circular in section, it demonstrates an extremely prominent disc-shaped collar adjacent to the surviving fragment of strap bar, in addition to a projecting disc-shaped protrusion at the mid-point of its surviving side, the latter b…
Created on: Sunday 14th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 7th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lidgate', grid reference and parish protected.