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Description: | A worn copper-alloy object, probably an awl or tracer for leatherworking and perhaps of Roman date. It has an elongated conical head that terminates in a rounded point. Projecting from the opposite end of the object is an integrally cast shaft that is square in section and tapers to a blunt point. The entire object is worn and heavily pitted, with a dark green patina. It measures 53.84mm in length, 10.21mm in diameter at centre, and weighs 11.61g. This example is similar to another example recorded from Steeple Bumpstead, Essex (SF-8AC0B6), as well as examples from Isleham, Cambridgeshire (SF-DE65F3) and Lakenheath, Suffolk (SF-C92C01). Bronze Age awls are relatively common finds within Suffolk, but these examples indcate the current object is of probable later date, perhaps belonging in the Late Iron Age to Roman periods of the 1st-4th centuries AD.
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