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Early-medieval : Toilet article
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York Museums Trust, Liz Andrews-Wilson, 2008-08-22 14:35:42
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Early-medieval : Toilet article
Description
English: An unusual copper-alloy object, not immediately identifiable. It is also incomplete, which hampers its identification. The main surviving piece is made from a flat rectangular copper-alloy plate which has been crimped over. The shaft which extends out from this is also rectangular in cross-section. It appears to have a rivet hole in it, at the point where it has broken. It resembles an early-medieval pair of tweezers, but it does not look right to be one. It is therefore possible that it is a mount or similar, or it could be a toilet article. But an early-medieval date seems most favourable.

Helen Geake writes:

This looks very like the kind of object identified as a 'page-holder' in the Winchester report (Biddle 1990, 756-8, no. 2326A). These have rectangular terminals, though this example is unusual in having small terminals with inturned ends. These page-holders appear to date from the medieval period, perhaps mainly from the 13th century. I have therefore changed the name of this object from 'PERSONAL GROOMING AND HYGIENE ITEM' to 'TWEEZERS' and the date-range from early-medieval (600-1000 AD) to medieval (1200-1300).
Depicted place (County of findspot) East Riding of Yorkshire
Date between 1200 and 1300
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1300-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 229244
Old ref: YORYM-C0EE92
Filename: TL0245.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/185262
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/185262/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/229244
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