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Description: | A slightly incomplete cast copper alloy item, probably a stylus, dating from the Roman - Medieval period, between AD 43 - 1500. The item is a circular sectioned rod, narrowing to a point at one end and flattening and widening at the other. There is a 90 degree bend about a third of the way down and the flatterned end is partially missing from an old break. The object has a pitted light green/ brown patinaA similar Medieval stylus is illustrated in Egan, G, 1998, 'Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: 6: The Medieval Household Daily Living c. 1150 - c. 1450', pages 270-1, fig 209, ref no 896. Egan states that these styli were mainly used for writing 'with waxed tablets...and probably used by architects/ builders on stone...The wedge-shaped ends could be used for the erasure of wax.'It measures 5.4mm wide by 4.4mm thick. It weighs 6.24grams.
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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