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Description: | A cast copper-alloy end-looped cosmetic pestle dating to the 1st to 2nd century AD. The cosmetic pestle is an oval sectioned crescent that tapers to a blunt terminal, and the other terminal ends with an integral end-loop on the underside of the pestle. The loop is an sub-circular. The surface of the pestle has a well developed mottled dark brown/green patina. It measures 46.88mm long, 13.62mm wide across the loop and 5.46mm thick. It weighs 9.9g.Similar end-looped cosmetic pestles can be seen in Ralph Jackson's paper on 'Cosmetic sets from the late Iron Age and Roman Britain' (1985: Britannia, Vol. 16, pp 165- 192). The closest parallel to this example is from Bletchley, Bucks (catalogue number 53).
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