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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy nail-cleaner, probably dating from the Late Iron Age to Early Roman period.The incomplete loop is on the same plane as the body, and both are of flat section. The body is leaf-shaped, its outward-bowing sides converging towards the pointed bottom end, from which the forked points have been lost.Length: 26.8mm; width: 12.4mm; thickness: 1.3mm. Weight: 1.86g.Nina Crummy illustrates two similar nail-cleaners, one from a grave of c. 10 BC at Welwyn, Herts, the other from a context of c. 50 AD or earlier, at Silchester (2001: 3/Figs. 1a and 1b). Nail-cleaners of this form, with large loops, plain, convex-sided bodies and short points, appear to be the forerunner of the much more common types of the post-Conquest period (ibid.).
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