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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Roman nail cleaner/strap-end. The main body of this object is flat in section, and has an elongated leaf-shape in plan, with ornately profiled 'shoulders'. Beyond these, the object's 'head' rises up from the main body at a c.30 degree angle. The implement's tip is divided into two pointed prongs.One side of the main body is decorated with complex incised and punched decoration. This consists of a pair of concentric circles, the area between which is ornamented with incised oblique lines, and within which lie four punched ring-and-dot motifs arranged around a central punched indentation, thus forming a cruciform arrangement. Either side of this large, central circular field, strings of interconnected ring-and-dor motifs run down the margins of the implement's upper surface, and individual ring-and-dot motifs are scattered around the shoulders and head of the implement. Each of the implement's 'shoulders' features a small punched openwork hole, while the flared, otherwise sparsely decorated 'head' features a larger hole, which may have been a suspension loop.The reverse is unornamented.The object survives in good condition with green/brown patina. The overall length of the object is 64.2mm; it is 12.78 mm wide at its widest point. It is 1.6mm thick and weighs 5.76g.The type probably best fits into Crummy's (1983: 58) type 2a, dating between the mid-1st and 2nd century AD.Two broadly similar objects from Staffordshire have been recorded on the database as WMID-E076D4 and WMID-DFA492, while there is a toilet implement of possibly different function from Little Hallingbury, Essex (ESS-AD69C2) . See also Crummy 1983, The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-1979.
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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