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Description: | Romano-British handle, possibly from a medical implement, perhaps a scalpel, octagon-sectioned shank with faces decorated with pairs of longitudinal lines of tiny punched dots alternating with blank faces. The shank tapers slightly towards one end with corroded remains of inserted iron blade visible in end and short slot in base (length 13mm), damaged expanded terminal with lozengiform facets and engraved lines on lower edge of median lozenges forming running zig-zag motif. Cf. Jackson, R. 1986. ??A set of Roman medical instruments from Italy??, Britannia 17: 119-67, fig.1. | Subjects: | Romano-British | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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