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Description: | An unusual copper-alloy object, not immediately identifiable. It is also incomplete, which hampers its identification. The main surviving piece is made from a flat rectangular copper-alloy plate which has been crimped over. The shaft which extends out from this is also rectangular in cross-section. It appears to have a rivet hole in it, at the point where it has broken. It resembles an early-medieval pair of tweezers, but it does not look right to be one. It is therefore possible that it is a mount or similar, or it could be a toilet article. But an early-medieval date seems most favourable.Helen Geake writes:This looks very like the kind of object identified as a 'page-holder' in the Winchester report (Biddle 1990, 756-8, no. 2326A). These have rectangular terminals, though this example is unusual in having small terminals with inturned ends. These page-holders appear to date from the medieval period, perhaps mainly from the 13th century. I have therefore changed the name of this object from 'PERSONAL GROOMING AND HYGIENE ITEM' to 'TWEEZERS' and the date-range from early-medieval (600-1000 AD) to medieval (1200-1300).
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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