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Description: | A pair of copper alloy tweezers, probably Roman in date but possibly Anglo-Saxon. The tweezers are in good condition; they are made from a single sheet of copper alloy, bent in half to form a suspension loop at the closed end where the metal is thickest, before tapering in thickness but widening in breath down towards the inwardly-curved, pincer-like ends. There is no decoration on these tweezers, and because their form did not alter for hundres of years, they may date from the Roman to Anglo-Saxon period (c. AD 43-750), although most known examples can be dated to the Roman period (AD 43 - 410). Almost identical tweezers were recovered during excavations in Colchester (see Crummy et al. 1983:59).
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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