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English: Incomplete, cast copper alloy unidentified object, possibly a toilet article. This object takes the form of a shaft, semicircular in section. Since deposition it has been bent almost in two, at an angle of approximately 25 degrees. One end of the shaft clearly terminates, with a finished, curved end. The opposite end appears incomplete. Here the shaft flares and flattens for 6.3mm before being truncated. The break edge is worn, suggesting that this damage occurred in antiquity. The object is much abraded and none of the original surface survives. The exposed surfaces are brown and predominantly light green. A tiny fragment of gilt survives at the curved end. The object is approximately 60mm long without the bend, 5.22m wide across the shaft, 10.12mm wide across the flared end, 2.38mm thick and weighs 5g.

The flat plain of the flared end suggests that the object would not have continued into a bowl, providing the object with a possible use as an ear scoop. However this does not preclude it from being a spatula type object used with a toilet set. The surviving gilt indicated that the object had a decorative as well as functional aspect. The object could date from the medieval to modern period.