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Description: | One arm and part of the loop from a pair of copper-alloy tweezers of possible Roman date. The surviving arm is flat, triangular in form flaring to a slightly expanded end that turns inwards at an angle of 45 degrees. At the top the arm narrows before curving round to form what would have been a neat, circular loop, half of which is now missing due to old breaks. Beneath the loop on the exterior surface of the arm are three pairs of double transverse grooves, the remainder of the object is undecorated. It measures 39.83mm in length, 7.80mm in width at base, 1.12mm in thickness, and weighs 1.38g. Tweezers such as this were in use from the Roman through Medieval periods. The form and decoration of the current example are indicative of an earlier rather than later date, probably in the Roman or Anglo-Saxon periods, c.43-850 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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