File:Nail cleaner (FindID 474243).jpg

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nail cleaner
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Suffolk County Council, Andrew Brown, 2016-08-31 16:37:57
Title
nail cleaner
Description
English: A cast copper-alloy nail cleaner of Roman date. The blade is flat and leaf-shaped in form, tapering towards a bifuricated tip. It is decorated on both faces with an incised border and has extensive visible tool marks. At the top of the blade is the suspension loop, which is set at right angles to the plane of the blade and has a single circular aperture. This object measures 40.79mm in length, 10.42mm in width at plate, 0.85mm in thickness, and weighs 1.92g.

This is a cosmetic nail cleaner of Roman date. The use of a leaf shaped blade with moulded suspension loop indicates it belongs in Crummy's Type 2a nail cleaners (Crummy, 1983: pp. 58, no. 1872) with parallels from Hacheston (Blagg et al., 2004: nos. 91-92). These indicate a date range in the 1st to 2nd centuries for the current example.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Essex
Date between 43 and 200
Accession number
FindID: 474243
Old ref: SF-E73034
Filename: SteepleBumpstead_SFE73034.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/581018
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/581018/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/474243
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