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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy cosmetic pestle, roughly half of this pestle survives, it has a crescent shaped shaft with an oval section and an incomplete central loop. One complete terminal end survives and tapers to a rounded point. This pestle measures 37.92mm in length and 3.53mm in width. Cosmetic apestle and mortar sets were used only in Britain in the late Iron Age and Romano-British periods possibly to grind small quantities of minerals for cosmetics.
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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