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Description: | Late Iron Age or early Roman cast copper alloy double looped cosmetic pestle. The pestle head is pointed oval in plan and circular in section; a rectangular-sectioned (with narrow sides curved) shank projects from the centre and terminates in two circular loops, one of each side of the stem. Length 24.32mm, width across pestle head18.64mm, thickness of pestle head 7.97mm, width across loops 15.6mm, thickness across loops 3.42mm, width & thickness of shank 4.5mm x 3.7mm, weight 7.40g.
Several other examples are recorded on the PAS database including KENT-23B3B2 (Kent), WMID-905A14 (Staffs), WMID-5F8906 (Staffs), WMID-8B2C03 (Staffs), SWYOR-131B66 (N Yorks), SWYOR-741F77 (W Yorks), WMID-083DF2 (W.Mids), HAMP-540E35 (Hampshire), HAMP-739C36 (Hampshire), SF-6E4BF6 (Suffolk), SUSS-009051 (E Sussex), KENT-7B0A04 (Kent). This appears to be the first of its type from Nottinghamshire.
Discussion (taken from KENT-23B3B2) - at present, there is no reliable typological sequence for the development of this category of artefact but most appear to belong to the 1st and 2nd centuries AD (Ralph Jackson ??Cosmetic Sets from Late Iron Age and Roman Britain?? (Britannia, Vol 16 (1985), 165-192)). Sally Worrell notes that several of the double-looped pestles recorded by the PAS have been reported on the margins of the general distribution of this artefact type (Britannia, Vol 39 (2008), 347-351). | Subjects: | cosmetic | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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