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Description: | A copper alloy probable stylus which is 69.8mm long. The shaft is circular in section and has a diameter of 4.8mm. At one end the shaft is flattened and flared into a rounded eraser which is 9.1mm wide. The metal has split and the eraser is broken. At the opposite end the shaft is reduced by half and becomes more angular, almost triangular in section for 12.2mm before the slightly rounded tapering terminal. This object is probably a Roman stylus though it is shorter than the examples in Bishop (1996) and the more similarly shaped parallels in Manning (1976, 54). It is also possible that it is a ligula like those in Butterworth, Cool and Philo (eds, 1998) which have a similar shape at the pointed end, but again, this object is shorter than the published examples.
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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