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Description: | Roman nail cleaner, most likely of Crummy's type 2a (which dates from the mid-late 1st century into the 2nd century). It is bent, almost at a right angle. It weighs 3.17g.
The nail cleaner has the characteristic leaf-shaped blade of type 2a, but on this example it is truncated by a horizontal edge just after the widest point (11.1mm) narrows slightly (8.7mm). A loop extends from the middle of this point, turned through 90??. The nail cleaner tapers to the other end, which is bifurcated and 3.2mm wide.
The nail cleaner is decorated with a series of horizontal and diagonal grooves. From the loop end: a group of three horizontal grooves. Just below the widest point, a pair of horizontal grooves. Below this, and bound by another pair of horizontal grooves, is a much lighter (and cruder) incised X, one arm of which is double, possibly through error at the first attempt. Below again is another pair of horizontal grooves and between is a single horizontal groove, with an inverted-V and V either side, of double grooves. Below is another inverted-V bound by a group of three inverted grooves at the other side. The vertical 'bifurcation' groove is directly below this.
The nail cleaner survives to a bent length of 41.3mm and would have originally been c.39mm long.
Cf. Crummy 1983, p.58, no.1874. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hinds, Katie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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