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Roman tweezers
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All rights reserved, Lindsey Bedford, 2013-01-02 19:48:32
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Roman tweezers
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English: A complete pair of copper-alloy tweezers, probably Roman in date. The tweezers are formed from a single strip of copper alloy (0.5mm thick). This has been folded over on itself at a defined loop to form a sprung end. The two arms of the tweezers touch together at the loop end and are separate at the gripping end. They are 39.4mm long and flare gradually along their length (5.2mm at the loop to 5.6mm at the tip) towards the tip which is narrowed. The metal has a dark-green patina. The tweezers are decorated at the suspension end with incised horizontal lines and there are traces of silvering. These tweezers were found with an ear scoop with the same decoration (PUBLIC-48B256) so formed part of a toilet set (nail cleaner missing).
Similar tweezers can be found illustrated in Wedlake 1982 219, fig.94, no.2., Bailey 1997 79 no.8 and PAS ref. WILT-6BB391
Depicted place (County of findspot) West Berkshire
Date between 43 and 410
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FindID: 537374
Old ref: PUBLIC-48DBE6
Filename: tweezers.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
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Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/410145
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/537374
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