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Description: | Roman copper alloy nail cleaner, decorated with rocker arm decoration on one side only. It measures 41.8mm in length and weighs 2.81g.The nail cleaner is probably of Crummy Type 2b, with a broad short top (10.3x12mm) compared to narrowness of blade(4.8x17.5mm). Crummy describes this as a stylised leaf-shape. Indeed, here it is rather more lozenge-shaped with rounded corners.The piercing is on the same plane (2.3mm diameter within a 7.8mm diameter loop) and seprated from the body of the nail cleaner by a collar (7mm wide). The nail cleaner is flat in section, being (max)2.4mm thick at the collar and narrowing to 1.4mm on the blade itself. The blade splays out a little at the bifurcated end, which may have been a little longer and lost through wear. A central V-shaped groove which creates the bifurcation travels the length of the shaft, narrowing in width and depth. A line of rocker-arm decoration covers this mostly, though the decoration is slightly off to one side.Rocker-arm decoration continues around the edge of the lozenge-shaped top and across the collar where it is two lines tall.Nail cleaners of Type 2b date to the 2nd and probably 3rd centuries.
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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