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Description: | Late Iron Age to Roman (1st to 2nd century AD) centre-looped cosmetic pestle: The copper alloy pestle crescentic plan with the upper edge being only slightly concave and having an integral circular loop on a wide stem. The pestle is circular in section and tapers to a blunt point at each terminal. The surface of the pestle has a mid grey/brown coloured patina. It measures 34.41mm long, 20.99mm wide across the loop and 4.68mm thick. It weighs 6.9g.The pestle would have been used with a crescent-shaped mortar with a central longitudinal groove to grind up small quantities of powder or cosmetics. These cosmetic sets are only found in Britain during the Romano-British period. They date, according to Jackson (Jackson, 1985) to the late Iron Age and Roman periods and illustrates a similar example No. 93.Jackson, R. 1985 'Cosmetic Sets from Late Iron Age and Roman Britain' Britannia
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