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Description: | A silver Medieval toilet implement. The implement is a combined ear scoop and toothpick or nail cleaner made from sheet metal. The scoop consists of a twisted shaft with small spoon at one end and a flat plain shaft at the other end. The latter is bent into an S shape and the end has been broken, so that it is not clear whether this formed a toothpick or a nail cleaner, and may have terminated in a pointed tip.Comparable PAS examples are 2011 T612, 2008 T240 and 2002 T268. Several similar scoops/picks have been found in London; see Egan and Pritchard, 'Dress Accessories', 1991, Numbers 1758-1760.The implement dates from c.1300-c.1400.Dimensions: length 68 mm, width of shaft (maximum) 6.21 mm, depth of shaft (maximum) 2.55 mm.
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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