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Description: | A complete, Roman, cast copper-alloy nail cleaner of Crummy type 1b (Crummy, 1983), dated to mid to late 1st century AD. The object has a large, circular, pierced suspension loop at the apex. The loop is set above the rounded shoulders of the leaf-shaped body of the object which tapers to a two-pronged terminal. Between these two terminal prongs, and running approximately one third back up the body of the nail cleaner is a shallow groove. The object is simply decorated with an incised border around its perimiter and a single, incised line along the centre line, continuous with the shallow groove. There are three further incised lines forming a Z shape below the suspension loop. The opposite face of the object is undecorated.
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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