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Description: | A copper-alloy nail-cleaner strap-end of Roman date.The artefact has rounded shoulders, and long sides that converge towards a pair of forked points. The loop is on the same plane as the body and consists of a sub-rectangular plate with a circular rivet hole located just off-centre. A second rivet hole is located one third of the way down the body, immediately below a transverse groove. Both the convex-surfaced body and the flat-sectioned loop bear traces of a heavily corroded pattern of grooves and ridges. Traces of an applied silver foil also survive. The underside of the strap-end is flat. The artefact measures 30.3mm long, up to 10.6mm wide (shoulders), 3.2mm thick (body) and weighs 3.74g.Nail-cleaner strap-ends are discussed by Eckardt and Crummy (2006), who identify them as a product of the late 3rd to early 5th centuries AD. This particular example does not fit into any of Eckardt and Crummy's groups, perhaps the closest parallel being no. 128 from Richborough (ibid. 87-88).
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