File:Nail Cleaner (FindID 573424).jpg

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Nail Cleaner
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Suffolk County Council, Ben Donnelly-Symes, 2015-11-11 11:51:52
Title
Nail Cleaner
Description
English: An incomplete cast copper-alloy cosmetic implement, probably a nail cleaner of Roman date. The top and bottom of the object are missing due to old breaks. It has a flat leaf-shaped plate or blade that tapers towards old breaks at the base. This is decorated on the front face with a central incised vertical groove and has been folded forwards due to post-depositional damage. At the top the object narrows to a rectangular neck or stem that is oval sectioned and preserves the base of the now incomplete suspension loop. The surfaces of this object have a dark green patina with extensive pitting and signs of corrosive copper-alloy products. It measures 42.40mm in length, 5.44mm in width, 2.47mm in thickness, and weighs 1.55g.

This is a Roman cosmetic nail cleaner, probably belonging to Crummy's Type 2a group (Crummy, 1983: p. 58) with similar examples noted from Roman Hacheston (Blagg et al., 2002: nos. 91-92). This group is dated to the mid-1st to 2nd centuries AD.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 43 and 200
Accession number
FindID: 573424
Old ref: SF-1E5062
Filename: BNGSF1E5062.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/540131
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/540131/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/573424
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