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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy nail cleaner of Roman date that is missing the tip of the double-pronged terminal due to old breaks. It has a flat lozenge shaped blade with a central vertical groove at the base that marks the start of the now missing double-pronged terminal. Towards its top the blade thickens creating a triangular profile and has a small transverse groove, above which the blade is truncated to give square shoulders from which extends the integral suspension loop. The suspension loop has a relatively long stem that is rectangular in plan, square in section and has very slight/delicate bead and reel moulding consisting of reel/reel/bead/reel. The loop itself is circular in plan with a large central circular perforation and set on the same plane as the blade. An additional copper alloy suspension ring/loop also survives attached to the integral suspension loop. This is formed from a single piece of copper alloy that has been folded or rolled into a ring with terminal ends not quite touching one another. It is sub oval shaped in section and measures 12.14mm in diameter. The entire object measures 38.67mm in length, 10.55mm in width (at suspension loop), 3.14mm in thickness (at suspension loop), and weighs 3.68g. This is a Roman cosmetic nail cleaner belonging to Crummy's Type 2a group (Crummy, 1983: p. 58) with similar exampes noted from Roman Hacheston (Blagg et al., 2002: nos. 91-92). This group is dated to the mid-1st to 2nd centuries AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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