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Description: | A complete copper-alloy Romano-British cosmetic pestle. The stem of this pestle is curvilinear and it has an end loop. It measures c49mm in length, 4.9mm in width and 4.8mm in thickness, the stem tapers to a rounded point. The end loop is oval in shape measuring 13mm by 11mm externally and 6mm by 5mm internally.
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 occurrence of animals' heads, often a bull and a cow, at the terminals of some mortars. Pestles with end loops like this example have been found at Thorndon, Suffolk (see SF-B36C81) Willingale, Essesx (see SF-73D380). | 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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