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Description: | Complete Roman bone needle, dating from the 1st-3rd century AD. The head of the needle is flattened and pointed and is pierced with a circular eye that is 3.22mm in diamater. The shaft has an oval section. The colour of the object is creamy beige, the surface is smooth and glossy. It is 94.38mm long, 6.9mm wide across the flattened head, the shaft is 3.3mm thick at the widest point and it weighs 2.09g. An example of a pointed head needle can be seen in Colchester archaeological Report 2, figure 70, no. 1959 (Crummy 1983). | 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
300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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