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Probable Roman nail cleaner
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Suffolk County Council, Faye Minter, 2007-02-14 10:06:45
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Probable Roman nail cleaner
Description
English: A probable copper-alloy Roman nail cleaner, extremely worn and corroded, 31.65mm in total length. The head, 5.36mm in width, is set at right angles to the plane of the body and is probable pierced by a hole, this is unclear due to corrosion. The blade is leaf-shaped with sloping shoulders and has a broader upper half; the lower half tapers and terminates in a worn point, due to corrosion and wear it is impossible to know if this is complete or not. The blade is 7.59mm in width at its widest point. This possible nail cleaner is most similar to Nina Crummy's (Lucerna 2001, 3-4) "Baldock type", common in Catuvellauni - Trinovantian area, with a 1st - 2nd century date range and not so far found pre-Conquest. The same article points out that nail cleaners are primarily a British phenomenon and rarely found on the Continent. Examples of this type from Suffolk are known from Hawedon (see SF-938206), Sutton (see SF-AD19f4) and Wickham Skeith (see SF-9227).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 43 and 410
Accession number
FindID: 159272
Old ref: SF-B4B3A8
Filename: COMSF-B4B3A8.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/130155
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/130155/recordtype/artefacts
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/159272
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