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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy nail cleaner, 35mm in length and 11mm in width. The suspension loop is on the same plane as the shaft and there is a copper-alloy rivet through the cicular perforation of the loop.The junction of the suspension loop and the shaft has decorative mouldings which are now worn but seem to have consisted of a central rectangular-shaped knop with two transverse grooves at its top and base. The shaft has downwards sloping shoulders and is tapering to a point, the tip of the shaft is missing due to an old break. There is a circular perforation through the centre of the shaft measuring 2mm in diameter, its function is unknown. Similar nail cleaners have been found at Colchester and those with the loop on the same plane as the shaft, rather than at right angles to it are dated to the mid 1st century (Crummy 1983, p58, Fig 62).
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