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Description: | Copper alloy nail cleaner. The head is set at right angles to the plane of the body and is pierced by a 2mm diameter hole. The blade has a broad upper half; the lower half tapers slightly to the two points (one of which is slightly damaged). There is a marginal line on each face, wrn on the upper part. Length 47mm, width 10mm, blade 1.1mm thick. Nina Crummy (Lucerna 2001, 3-4) describes this as the "Baldock type", common in Catuvellauni - Trinovantian area, with a 1st - 2nd century date range and not so far found pre-Conquest. The same article points out that nail cleaners are primarily a British phenomenon and rarely found on the Continent. | 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: | 43
150 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jude Plouviez | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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