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Description: | A copper-alloy Roman nail cleaner. The nail cleaner is particularly interesting in that it is shaped like a fish, with the fish's tail forming the points of the cleaner. The cleaner broadens from the tail, as a stylised, symmetrical fish's body. The tip of the fish's head is broken and missing (from the wear this appears to have been an ancient break) and this is presumably where a loop would have been located to attach the nail cleaner to a belt or chatelaine. The obverse is decorated with a wavy 'S' shaped pattern around the outside and down the centre of the body of the object. It is undecorated on the reverse. The object measures 60 mm in length and 16 mm wide at the broadest part of the body and 5 mm wide at the end of the fish's tail. It is probably late Roman in date, and likely to date to the 4th century.
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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