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Description: | A complete copper alloy nail cleaner of Roman date. This nail cleaner is of Crummy's Type 2a. The blade is a pointed leaf shape, tapering gently from rounded shoulders to a narrow forked terminal. An integral ovate collar with looped suspension terminal is present projecting centrally from the upper end of the leaf-shapes body. The loop is parallel to the plane of the blade. The collar is decorated with circumferential moulded rings and a median groove runs from the base of the collar to the fork in the opposite terminal.The metal has a mid-green patina and is worn. The nail cleaner is 52.7mm long, 10.9mm wide, 3.2mm thick and weighs 3.9g.A similar example is illustrated in Crummy (1983), p.58, fig.62, no.1872 and is classed as a Type 2a which date to the mid-1st-2nd century AD. In the description of this type Crummy states that the suspension loop is "often, though not invariably, at right angles to the plane of the blade".
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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