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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy nail cleaner, measuring 27.83mm in length and 7.84mm in width. The blade is leaf shaped, and the suspension loop, which is now incomplete due to an old break, is set a right angles to the plane of the blade. The shoulders of the blade are sloping and it tapers towards its now missing tip. Traces of border grooves on the blade can be seen on both faces, the neck of the incomplete suspension loop also has traces of moulded V-shaped decoration. This nail cleaner is very similar to those of type 2a, found at Colchester and dated to the mid to late 1st century probably continuing into the 2nd century (Crummy 1983, 58, fig 62, no 1872, 1874). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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