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English: Copper alloy tweezers. The sheet that the tweezers are made out of is less than 1mm thick and only 5mm wide and 31mm long. The sheet had been bent in two with a circular shaped fold. 8mm from the terminal each arm has slightly bent inwards and the tips have been slightly narrowed so that the tips are 2.5mm wide. There is a double line of stamped triangular decoration running down the centre of each arm. The artefact has a rich dark green patina that is the original surface, the edge of the tips have been slightly damaged.
Similar artefacts have been found in Anglo-Saxon graves such as grave 152 Butler’s Field in Gloucestershire (Boyle et al, 1998, 118 & 244) and is associated with the earlier 5th/6th century phase of the cemetery although examples are known throughout much of the Early Medieval Period. Added to this a similar set was found at Frocerster and was dated to the 3rd century (Price, 2000, 52, 53). Therefore, because of the simple nature of the tweezers they have been dated from the Roman to late Early Medieval Period.