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Description: | A complete set of sheet copper-alloy tweezers, with both arms distorted and bent due to damage. These tweezers measures 57mm in length. The arms flare slightly towards their terminals and increase in width from 6mm in width below the loop to 8mm in width across the terminal end. The ends of the arms are bent inwards at roughly a 90 degree angle.
Sheet copper-alloy tweezers of this type are present from the Roman to the medieval period and are very difficult to date more accurately without an excavated context. However, as this example was discovered in an area which has yielded predominantly Anglo-Saxon finds they are perhaps most likely to be Anglo-Saxon in date. | 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: | 500
900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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