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Description: | Delicate and carefully cast nail-cleaner of Roman date. The nail-cleaner is of circular cross-section, except for the grooved flattened blade-end. The implement has a circular knop at the apex of the handle. The handle gently tapers, and is divided into two zones by a wide rounded groove at its mid point. The remnants of eroded incised decoration are discernible on both zones, the upper zone caries two rows of chevrons, forming a lozenge design. The lower zone appears to carry a single row of chevrons. A thin rounded groove defines the shoulder and the beginning of the pear-shaped blade. The points of the blade-end are missing, but the blade appears to be diverging outwards at the end. There is no evidence for an attachment loop. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 150
300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Mark Lodwick | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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