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Description: | A small, worn cast copper-alloy Roman nail cleaner dating to the first or second centuries AD. The suspension 'loop' is sub-square in shape and 6.7mm in diameter, with an internal diameter of 2.4mm. Rather than being a loop per se, it is a perforation for suspension. It is at right angles to the shaft. At the junction of loop and shaft there is moulded deoration over a length of 6.9mm. This decoration takes the form of transverse grooving round three-quarters of the circumference: three grooves create two ridges. Below this the shaft rapidly curves out into shoulders 9.0mm wide before tapering gently to the points (width of 4mm). The shaft is plain, featuring neither decorative incisions nor the scored line which often emerges from between the points. The form of the artefact suggests classification as a Crummy's (2001, 3-4) 'Baldock' Type, giving the date range cited. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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