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Description: | A complete copper-alloy cosmetic pestle. Measuring 80.5mm in length, c8.7 in width and 9.1mm thick at its thickest point. The shaft of this pestle is swollen at its terminal end, the other end tapers and terminates in a circular loop. This loop measures 12.4mm externally and 5.2mm internally. It is formed from the bent-over terminal of the shaft and its end soldered onto the shaft.
This pestle would have been used with a crescent-shaped mortar with a central longitudinal groove to grind up small quantities of powder or cosmetics. These cosmetic sets are only found in Britain during the Romano-British period. They have clear associations with fertility owing to their shape and the occurrance of animals' heads at the terminals of some mortars. | 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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