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Description: | A large complete copper-alloy cosmetic pestle. This pestle has a circular loop with an external diameter of 14mm and an internal diameter of 7mm. The shaft of the pestle is rectangular in plan and curvilinear, tapering to a point. It has a oval cross-section and measures 51.8mm in length, 10.9mm in width and is 7.5mm thick. This pestle would have been used with a cosmetic mortar to grind small quantities of cosmetics or powers. Cosmetic mortars and pestles are found almost exclusively in Britain during the late Iron Age and the Roman occupation of the country. They are associated with fertility as the pestles often look phallic and the terminals of the mortars can have twinned male and female animal heads. | 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
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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