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Description: | A copper alloy Roman toilet article. It is a nail cleaner bent out of shape, most likely due to plough damage. It is a narrow strip of metal, of flat, rectangular section, 3.28mm wide and 1.45mm thick, and 60.97mm in length (unbent). It weighs 1.79g. One terminal tapers to a rounded end, and the other flares slightly and is forked. This nail cleaner may originally have been bent around a ring as part of a toilet set, as with an example from Colchester which is a Crummy type 4 example (Crummy 1983, fig.67, no.1945). This type at Colchester dates to the late third to fourth 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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