File:Medieval (probably) tweezers, one arm only. (FindID 138672).jpg

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Medieval (probably) tweezers, one arm only.
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Derby Museums Trust, Rachel Atherton, 2006-08-07 15:10:50
Title
Medieval (probably) tweezers, one arm only.
Description
English: Cast copper alloy tweezers fragment, one arm only. Narrow triangular arm, tapering towards the broken loop. One surface of the arm is decorated with two longitudinal incised lines extending from the terminal roughly halfway up the arm, with diagonal transverse line border. There are traces of tinning/silvering on both surfaces. The arm is bent. Probably medieval, possibly Roman or Early Medieval. Length (bent) 55.75mm, width at terminal 9.01mm, thickness at terminal 0.7mm, width at loop end 4.16mm, thickness at loop end 2.0mm, weight 2.64g. See LON-2C1623 for a similar pair of tweezers, recorded as medieval.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Lincolnshire
Date between 50 and 1500
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FindID: 138672
Old ref: DENO-7196B6
Filename: E5105 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
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/109664
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/109664/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/138672
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