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Description: | A complete pair of cast copper-alloy tweezers in very good condition, measuring 71.4mm in total length. The loop has a longitudinal groove across it. Each of the arms flares towards its terminal, with an original width of 4.7mm increasing to 10.1mm at the flaring terminals. The ends of both of the arms are bent inwards at about a 45 degree angle. Both of the arms have decoration based on panels with bevelled edges. From the top of the arms down, the first two small panels have three transverse grooves across them, there is then a longer plain panel with more extensive bevelled edges. About half way down both of the arms their surface is worn and scratched(probably plough damage), so that any further decoration can no longer be seen. These tweezers are similar in style and decoration to a cast pair also with bevelled edges and panels of decoration including transverse grooves, found near Cambridge in an early Anglo-Saxon grave (MacGregor and Bolick, 1993, 223-224 no 38.19). This type of cast tweezers with bevelled edges may be Roman in origin but survive into the early Anglo-Saxon period, into the 7th century. This example is most likely to be early Anglo-Saxon in date, rather than Roman due to its association with an assemblage of early Anglo-Saxon objects.
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