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Description: | Sheet copper alloy flat-bladed nail cleaner in the form of a fish in plan. On the upper face of the cleaner there are three lines of parallel punched ring and dot decoration and two ring and dot punches for the eyes around the grooved mouth which acts as the point of the cleaner. The tail end has a circular loop which would have been used to suspend the cleaner, as part of a toiletry set, from the wearer's belt.
Nina Crummy has written about similar Late Roman flat-bladed nail-cleaners, on which various combinations and permutations of the ring-and-dot motif are common (Ralph Jackson pers comm).
She illustrates similar examples on page 126, Fig.66, Nos.109, 503, 515 & 687, which are dated to the late Roman period in Hella Eckardt and Nina Crummy "Styling the body in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain: a contextual approach to toilet instruments" (Monographies instrumentum 36, Editions Monique Mergoil, Montagnac, 2008). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tyacke, Anna - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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