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Medieval Page Turner
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Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Katie Hinds, 2011-07-14 13:51:10
Title
Medieval Page Turner
Description
English: A complete pair of Medieval copper alloy tweezers, of the type with rectangular terminals believed to have been used as a page holder or page turner. It measures 49.98mm in length, 17.25mm in max.width and 5.30mm in max.thickness. The object weighs 4.2g.

The rectangular terminals would have been decorated and the rivet holes in conjunction with the yellow/ brown adhesion on their surface suggest they may have had an applied decorative plate. The rectangular terminals measure 17.25x16.91mm. The arms which extend from them narrow from 6.80mm wide where they join the terminals to 2.55mm wide at the apex (which forms the loop and the widest part of the arms, max.4.84mm wide). There is a slide in place around the arms, made from a bent strip of copper alloy.

Cf. WAW-112003 for rivet holes in the plate. There are to date 11 other of these objects recorded on the PAS database. Biddle suggests a date in the 13th to 15th century (1990, p. 756, no. 2326A). Page holders are similar to tweezers but may have been used to hold several leaves of vellum together. They occur on both lay and ecclesiastical sites (Biddle 1990, 756).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Wiltshire
Date between 1200 and 1500
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 453750
Old ref: WILT-DBD832
Filename: Fry0711pageturner.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/337705
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/337705/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/453750
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Object location51° 32′ 24.36″ N, 2° 10′ 03.07″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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