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Description: | A slightly corroded and damaged cast copper-alloy nail cleaner of Roman date with leaf-shaped blade. It has round suspension loop, perforated, and slightly squared off; this has been bent round and down as a result of old damage. The body below expands to an oval body (W.: 8.2mm) before narrowing to the rectangular blade (W.: 3.85mm). The blade terminates in a bifurcation, the two points of which are slightly unequal lengths, again as a result of old losses. From this, travelling up the blade, on one side is a central longitudinally engraved line.This form of the nail cleaner suggests classification as Crummy (1983, 58) Type 2a, although it does not have have the usual perpendicular loop of this type. A similar example is illustrated by Bishop (1996, 39; ref. 216) and is labelled as Crummy Type 2a. This object now has a variable mid-green patina, pitted in places.
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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