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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Roman nail cleaner. The loop terminal is incomplete, and the shoulder is defined by bead and reel moulding. The shaft is set in the same plane as the loop, and is an elongated leaf-shape, tapering to a narrow rectangular bar with an incomplete terminal with the points missing. The nail cleaner measures 53.29mm in length, 8.53mm in width across the widest part of the shaft, tapering to 2.8mm at the incomplete terminal. It weighs 3.02g. A similar example illustrated in Crummy 1983, no.1872, from Roman Colchester and the type is dated to mid first century continuing into the second. An incomplete example from Hacheston has similar moulding. (Blagg, Plouviez and tester, 2004, fig.77, no.91)
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