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Description: | An incomplete pair of worn copper-alloy tweezers hanging from a circular copper-alloy suspension ring. This suspension ring has a split, which has probably been squeezed shut to form the ring. It measures 13mm in external diameter and 8.8mm in internal diameter. The top loop of the tweezers survives, a fragment of one arm and nearly all of the other. The almost complete arm measures 44.3mm in length and is flaring slightly towards its missing terminal, it measures 4.8mm beneath the loop and 6.2mm at its incomplete terminal end. The front face of this arm is decorated with two longitudinal boarder grooves, faint traces of transverse grooves can also be seen inbetween these boarder grooves. These tweezers are similar to a pair, also incomplete on a suspension ring, found at Trimley St Martin, Suffolk. They are most likely to be early to mid Anglo-Saxon in date especially due to their association with an assemblage of early Anglo-Saxon objects.
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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