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Roman medical instrument
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Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Richard Henry, 2012-07-06 19:02:08
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Roman medical instrument
Description
English: A cast copper-alloy Roman surgical instrument. The instrument resembles ear scoops from the same period, but it has been suggested that this instrument was used to help apply ointment to wounds. Crummy described them as 'spoon-probes' and states that they are not a common site find for Britain, 'they were employed not only as surgeon's curettes or sounds but also as toilet spoons in general' (Crummy, p60-1). She suggested they could have been used to extract cosmetics from containers or to apply or removed make-up. Ralph Jackson details similar examples in Jackson, 1986 fig 4 number 33 - 35 which he describes as spatula probes. The instrument has a long and slender shaft, with a long, bulbous knopped terminal. There is a spoon-like fitting on the opposite terminal, which is also long and slender, and tapers to a flat end, the reverse of the spoon has a ridge running along its length. The artefact has been bent upwards and the spoon has been bent upwards and has been cracked at the tip.

The implement is 128.7mm in length, 16.4wide and 8.55mm thick, it weighs 11.25 grams.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Wiltshire
Date between 41 and 410
Accession number
FindID: 511243
Old ref: WILT-718FB2
Filename: WILT-718FB2.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/388276
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/388276
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/511243
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