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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy nail cleaner, the tip of this nail cleaner is missing due to an old break. It has a moulded neck with a shouldered blade of varying width. The suspension loop is on the same plane as the blade, it is rectangular in shape measuring 11.5mm in length and 4.6mm in width, with a circular perforation in its centre and four transverse mouldings on its front face just before it joins the blade. The blade is leaf shaped with sloping shoulders, no decoration can be seen on either face and the terminal of the blade is missing. It measures 37.7mm in surviving length and 11.8mm in width at its widest point (across the shoulders of the blade). Similar nail cleaners have been discovered at Colchester and are believed to be mid to late 1st century probably continuing into the 2nd century (Crummy 1983, 58, fig 62).
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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