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Description: | A complete copper-alloy set of tweezers which are most likely to be medieval in date. They are made from sheet and have a loop and straight arms, they measure 48.8mm in length and 4.1mm in width, the arms seem to taper slightly towards their terminals, which are 3.09mm in width and appear to have been turned inwards at a circa 45 degree angle originally, indicated by a transverse crease across both terminals. One terminal remains turned inwards and the other has been pushesd outwards, both terminals have straight ends. There is a narrow copper-alloy sheet slide folded around the arms, which is holding them together and is positioned about one third of the way down the length of the arms. The presence of this slide, similar to those on page-holders, as well as the straight arms indicates that these tweezers are more likely to be medieval than Roman or Anglo-Saxon. Similar medieval tweezers with slides and often with rocked tracer puching decoration too are known from Winchester and thought to be medieval in date (Biddle 1990, 690-691, fig 190).
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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