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Description: | A complete pair of copper-alloy tweezers, probably dating from the Roman period. The tweezers are formed from one strip of copper alloy, with a loop at the top and incurving blade ends. Mass: 6.3g; length: 60.5mm; maximum width: 10.2mm; depth: 6.4mm (loop). On both sides of the tweezers, there are two parallel horizontal grooves - one at the base of the loop and one at the top of the blades. There are also two parallel grooves on the top of the loop, transverse to the orientation of the other grooves. The tweezers have a well developed smooth green patinaSimilar tweezers have been recorded in contexts from the Roman period (e.g. see: "Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small finds from excavtions in Colchester 1971-9", Crummy, 1983, figure 63 and p58-59, and "Excavations at a large Romano-British settlement at Hatcheson, Suffolk in 1973-4", Blagg, Plouviez and Tester, 2004, figure 77 and p.116). But there are also similar but smaller tweezers recorded from medieval deposits in: "Colchester Archaeological Report 5: The post-Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-85", Crummy, 1988, figure 29, number 1884, and p.26-7.
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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