File:Anglo-Saxon tweezer arm (FindID 123057).jpg

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Anglo-Saxon tweezer arm
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Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service, Faye Minter, 2006-02-22 15:56:14
Title
Anglo-Saxon tweezer arm
Description
English: The incomplete copper-alloy probable arm of a pair of Anglo-Saxon tweezers. This arm measures 30.6mm in surviving length and is incomplete due to an old break. The arm is rectangular in shape but flares outwards very abruptly at its terminal, it is 4.9mm in width at the incomplete narrower end, flares to 6.9mm after 19.6mm and then finally flares to a width 19.3mm across the terminal end. The front face of the arm is decorated with a central ring and dot motif six transverse grooves and then another central ring and dot motif before the terminal. The terminal has opposing rounded knops where it starts to flare and is decorated with two transverse rows of ring and dot motifs the first upper row has 3 motifs and the second has 5. The ends of the terminal turn inwards at a rounded roughly a 45 degree angle.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 410 and 1000
Accession number
FindID: 123057
Old ref: SF-5EF5C7
Filename: LMDSF-5EF5C7.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/93279
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/93279/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/123057
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