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Description: | A pair of copper-alloy tweezers, probably Early Medieval in date. The arms are narrow at the loop and flare to the terminals with the flare becoming more pronounced towards the ends. Both terminals are irregular and the tips are lost to old breaks. Each arm of the tweezers is decorated with a pattern of eight ring and dot motifs, arranged in a slightly irregular line down the centre. They have a glossy dark-green patina. They are 40.4mm long, 4.9mm wide at the loop, 9.8mm wide at the terminals, and each arm is 0.7mm thick; they weigh 3.52 grams. Tweezers are very difficult to date becasue as functional items they don't change a great deal over time but the general shape and decoration suggest they may be Early Medieval. SF-B664A5, NMS-38B0E5 and BERK-323431 on the database are similar .
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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