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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy artefact of the Roman period, probably a nail cleaner, although a definitive identification is impossible. The suspension loop is c. 5.7mm in diameter and has an internal diameter of c. 2.8mm. It is in the same plane as the shaft. Below the loop is a moulding which narrows to a waist c. 2.7mm wide before expanding again to c. 4.2mm. The shaft begins below this, flaring to shoulders c. 14.7mm wide before beginning to taper. At the point at which the object was broken the shaft is 7.2mm in width. On the visible face (see notes, below), the object is decorated with punched ring and dot: a triangular formation, with two rings at the maximum width of the shoulders and one centrally below. Any further decoration, if it existed, has been lost through the damage sustained by the artefact; it is unknown whether the back face was decorated. The decoration suggests that this is a later 4th-century type as identified by Crummy (2001, 6); the fact that the loop is in the same plane as the shaft does not contradict this. | 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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