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Description: | An incomplete Roman (AD 300-410) copper alloy nail cleaner with multiple motifs. The nail cleaner is 60.10mm in length, 12.75mm wide, 3.15mm thick and weighs 5.89 grams. It is broken across the top of the loop (which is in the same plane as the body).The surviving section of the loop is 6.95mm wide and 2.50mm thick. The loop extends from the end of the D sections shaft.The shaft is decorated with multiple motifs, in the centre of the shaft is decorated with five transverse ridges and five transverse grooves. Between the transverse decorations and the terminals are numerous diagonal incisions forming V's with a central longitudinal incisions. The shaft terminates at either end with V shaped projection decorated with ring and dot motif.The body expands outwards from the shaft before narrowing towards the bifurcated end. The widest point of the body is decorated with a circular recess located within a a circular border. The central decoration has iron corrosion product, any further decoration is indiscernible. Below the circular border are five ring and dot motifs. The edge of the boy is decorated with numerous crescent punches. At the tip of the body is a bifurcated end. The bifurcated end is decorated with numerous transverse incisions.The reverse is flat and undecorated.The punched ring-and-dot decoration suggests a Late Roman date and possible military association.
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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