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Description: | One possible half of a pair of copper alloy sheet metal tweezers. The tweezers are incomplete, consisting of one side of a pair of tweezers. It is an elongated triangle in plan with an abraded lower edge and the upper narrowed portion of the tweezers forming a hooked curve which is slightly thicker than the flat portion of the tweezers. The apparent interior face of the tweezers is decorated with a pair of parallel grooves and the central ridge between has incised notes as decoration. The surface of the tweezers is abraded, and perhaps over cleaned as the shiny red copper alloy is visible in patches. The tweezers measure 50.04mm in length, 8.11mm wide and weighs 1.5 grams.Normally the decoration would be on the exterior surface so this may imply either the tweezers are damaged and therefore have become bent in the wrong direction or they from another decorative type of object. Tweezers, being a functional type of artefact, change little stylistically over time, but this pair are similar to those considered to be of Roman dating (50to 410 AD), for example Crummy (Crummy, N 1983 Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-9, Colchester Archaeological Trust.) No. 1883.
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