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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy pair of tweezers of Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date. The tweezers are comprised of a single piece of metal folded in half to create two parallel plates with loop for attachment at the apex. Below the loop the neck of the tweezers is D-shaped in section and decorated with seven groups of four diagonal incisions resulting in a twisted appearance. From the neck the tweezing ends expand to form triangular plate with curved ends. The upper surface of one plate is decorated with an expanding series of zig-zag dots within an incised border while the other plate has eight irregularly spaced rows of dots also within an incised border.The metal has a mid green patina and is worn. The tweezers are 69.1mm long, 3.9mm wide at the neck, 12.6mm wide at the tweezing ends, 1.1mm thick and weighs 7.8g.A similar example is illustrated in EAA 84, p.122, fig.6, no.51.
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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