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Description: | A complete pair of copper-alloy tweezers, probably dating from the Roman period. The tweezers are formed from one strip of copper alloy, with a loop at the top and incurving blade ends. There is no sign of decoration on any of the surfaces. The tweezers are 41.2mm long, 9.2mm wide, 1.1mm thick and weigh 2.50 grams.Similar tweezers have been recorded in contexts from the Roman period (e.g. see: "Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small finds from excavtions in Colchester 1971-9", Crummy, 1983, figure 63 and p58-59, and "Excavations at a large Romano-British settlement at Hatcheson, Suffolk in 1973-4", Blagg, Plouviez and Tester, 2004, figure 77 and p.116). But there are also similar but smaller tweezers recorded from medieval deposits in: "Colchester Archaeological Report 5: The post-Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-85", Crummy, 1988, figure 29, number 1884, and p.26-7.
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