Description

Summary: 1 Iron Age iron ring, rectangular in cross-section and flatter on one side, probably a terret or buckle loop, from the Iron Age settlement at Cow Down, Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire, excavated by Professor C F C Hawkes and Mrs S Hawkes, 1956-60.

Research results

An Iron Age iron ring, excavated from the Iron Age settlement at Cow Down, Longbridge Deverill, by Professor C F C Hawkes and Mrs S Hawkes, 1956-60. The ring is potentially a terret or buckle loop.

This terret was examined by Anna Lewis (2015) as part of her PhD thesis on Iron Age and Roman terrets. Making use of new discoveries, particularly from PAS data, she was able to refine the typology and dating of the form, and add nuance to discussion sof their development. She identifies the earliest terrets as dating to 5th century BC in graves in the East of the Country, and divides the subsequent corpus into early, late and imported types. She found that terrets often appear to have been deliberately deposited and found that they were found in the greatest quantities in the North East, followed by the South West and East Midlands.