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Description: | A pair of copper alloy tweezers dating from the Roman or Early Medieval period. The fragment is 76.6mm long, 18.4mm wide and 8.4mm thick at the loop. The top of the tweezers forms a loop. The arms are decorated with transverse grooves in groups of two and three down towards the ends and the terminals are decorated with dotted impressions along the flared edges and spaced in the centre. The ends of the arm are in-turned at about a 60 degree angle. The tweezers appear to be cast which suggests a Roman date, but the widely flared terminals are more characteristic of an Early Medieval date (Geake, 2001). The whole object has a glossy bluish green patina. There is some pitting due to corrosion. Similar sets of tweezers on the database are record numbers SF-5EF5C7 and SWYOR-395CC1.
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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