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NAIL CLEANER
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The British Museum, Michael Byard, 2019-12-04 14:25:56
Title
NAIL CLEANER
Description
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An incomplete Roman copper alloy nail cleaner dating to c.AD 100-300. The object is only missing part of its attachment loop.

The nail cleaner is made up of an elongated sub oval plate from the bottom of which extends a forked tail. This forked tail has an incised line running lengthways down the centre. At the opposite end of the plate is a narrow rectangular neck above which projects a circular loop that is missing its a segment between 9 and 12 o'clock. The nail cleaner is flat in cross section and has a medium green patina.

The nail cleaner is 40.9mm long, 7.1mm wide, 0.5mm thick and weighs 4.0 grams.

Examples of this type of nail cleaner found at dated contexts can be dated broadly from 2nd-4th century AD while similar examples are illustrated by Eckhardt and Crummy (2008, 121-122, fig. 59). Crummy has provided a basic typology of the examples excavated from Roman Colchester (Crummy, 1983: 57-58). This example falls loosely into her Type 2a or 2b nail cleaners due to its flat, tapering leaf-shaped blade (Crummy 1983: 58, nos. 1872-1874, 1941).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 100 and 300
Accession number
FindIdentifier: 983832
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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/1084045
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1084045/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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Object location51° 50′ 06″ N, 1° 32′ 55.97″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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