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Description: | Copper alloy Roman nail cleaners of Crummy's type 2a. The nail cleaners would have formed part of a toilet set including tweezers and a pick and most likely would have hung together on a chatelaine brooch or from a belt. This example has a large circular suspension loop and the flat stem is wide at the top to facilitate grip between finger and thumb. The stem narrow at the end to a forked tip used for cleaning the nails. there is a central groove running up the article.
The cleaners weigh 2.03g and measure 43.8mm in length, 10.4mm in width and 1.81mm in thickness. A similar parallel can be seen in 'Roman Finds from Aldborough' by M Bishop. Fig.21 No. 216. | 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
400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Marshall | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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