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Description: | A copper-alloy Roman nail cleaner measuring 38mm in length. The front face has some moulded decoration and the back face is flat and undecorated. The loop is on the same plane as the shaft and 5mm in external diameter. The top of the shaft, beneath the loop, is rectangular in shape, 10mm in length and 4mm in width, the front face of this part of the shaft is decorated with mouldings. There are two transverse bands either side of a oval-shaped moulding. Beneath this the shaft then flares into another almost rectangular shape, 24mm in length, it begins with two curved downwards sloping shoulders with a width of 9mm and then gently tapers towards the terminal of the nail cleaner. This nail cleaner is unusual as it terminates in a circular hole which has been broken, due to an old break, at its base. Perhaps this nail cleaner has been modified and reused after its original terminal had been destroyed, this explanation would also explain its fairly short length.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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