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Description: | Loop and one arm from a pair of Early Medieval copper-alloy tweezers. The arm is rectangular in cross-section and it curls over to form the loop. Here it is broken (possibly a recent break) but retains traces of iron corrosion, presumably from an iron suspension ring. The arm flares, with a slight concave curve, to a flat wide triangular terminal. It is decorated on the outer surface of the entire arm with a grooved border, each groove embellished with a line of punched dots; as the arm widens, it has a column of four surviving ring-and-dot motifs down the centre. The very end of the tweezers arm is broken, and none of the original edge survives. There was originally a line of ring-and-dot motifs along the end, shown by one surviving example at a corner.In side view the object tapers gently from the loop to the tip of the arm. The reverse is undecorated and has a slightly rough texture, whereas the outer surface has a well developed shiny green/grey patina. The object measures 54.84mm long, 12.55mm wide and 5.61mm thick. It weighs 2.59g.Several similar tweezers are recorded on the PAS database, for example at LIN-A29AD8, SF-1C5BB7 and DENO-29EDD7. Excavated parallels from sites such as Flixborough and Brandon suggest a date in the middle Anglo-Saxon period.
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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