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Copper alloy terret with glass 'enamel'. Cast bronze ring with 'saddle' type attachment bar set between two slightly slanting circular domed stops that are slightly hollowed underneath. Around each of them there is a groove; this has been worn away on the inner face of one of the stops. There is much wear on the tops of the stops and on the adjacent parts of the inner face of the ring. Symmetrically disposed around the outer edge of the ring and set parallel thereto are three clusters of four semi-circular wings; close to the edge on the under surface of the sideways-projecting wings there is a groove. The inner faces of the other two wings in each pair are embellished with insets filled with glass; these insets, like the triangular ones on the ring itself are bordered by incised lines. Most of the glass has now devitrified, but one or two unaltered fragments indicate that it was all originally red in colour.
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