File:NAIL CLEANER (FindID 953276).jpg

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NAIL CLEANER
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Surrey County Council, Simon Maslin, 2019-05-14 10:25:01
Title
NAIL CLEANER
Description
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A bent copper alloy Roman nail cleaner with moulded neck and shouldered blade of Eckardt and Crummy 2008, 20, fig.59 and Crummy 1983, Type 2a,dating from the 1st to 2nd century AD. The suspension loop is round and has a decorative moulded neck with a flattened globular bead with transverse incised bands which is flanked by a pair of waisted reels.The cleaner is leaf shaped and gently tapers from shoulders to the tip, which would have ended in a pair of prongs, however these have been lost. There is a longitudinal groove running up from between the prongs to the centre of the nail cleaner on one side.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Hampshire
Date between 43 and 150
Accession number
FindIdentifier: 953276
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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/1056973
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1056973/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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