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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman nail cleaner, consisting of a broken suspension loop attached to an incomplete leaf shaped shaft. The loop is in the same plane as the shaft, and the bar adjoining the two sections is decorated with three transverse ribs. The shaft begins below this, flaring to a maximum width of 12.68mm before beginning to taper. The tapering appears to reduce just before the point at which the shaft is broken. At this transitional point, the shaft is 5.19mm in width.
One face of the shaft is decorated with a single punched ring and dot. The other side has this design repeated three times in a sub triangular arrangement. This decoration is similar to the object described as record NARC-180E67.
The nail cleaner has a dark green patina. It is 25.99mm long and weighs 2.07g. The nail cleaner does not feat neatly into the typology proposed by Crummy (1983, p58). In a later work, Crummy (2001, 6) states that ring and dot decoration is a common decorative feature on late fourth century Roman nail cleaners. | Subjects: | Nail cleaner | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Slarke, Duncan - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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