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Description: | Complete cast copper alloy nail cleaner, Crummy & Eckardt group 3 'Nail cleaners with crescent-shaped lugs'.The attachment end is flared and split, with an iron rivet through the centre at the top. The base of the neck is crescentric on either side. The blade is leaf shaped with a faceted waist below. The terminal is typically bifurcated. The entire face of the strap end-nail cleaner is decorated with punched and incised motifs. The head is decorated with a central row of punched semi-circles. This central row stops in line with the top of the crescentric neck, from which point it turns into a recessed rectangular box extending down to the narrowed waist. The box contains a row of criss-crosses. The perimeter of the blade is decorated with a row of punched semi-circles.Large amounts of iron corrosion fill the gap between the split plates at the attachment end and also extends to cover parts of the fromt and back of the head, and the sides of the neck. Although the rivet is iron the amount of corrosion covering the nail cleaner suggests that it was attached to an iron plate rather than a strap, or that it was deposited lying on an iron object such as a suspension ring.
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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