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Description: | Complete but bent copper-alloy Roman nail cleaner. The main body of the item is flat oval plate which is decorated with a single incised line around the perimeter of both faces. Above this plate there is a moulded waisted neck of two back-to-back crescents and above this a circular suspension loop set in the same plane as the oval plate. At the opposite end of the oval plate the item tapers downwards to form a rounded-square sectioned shank which terminates in a flattened bifurcated terminal, the tips of which are now missing through damage. Dated broadly to the Roman period as AD 43-410.
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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