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COSMETIC MORTAR
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Darren White, 2020-05-12 16:11:49
Title
COSMETIC MORTAR
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An Iron Age to Early Roman copper-alloy end looped cosmetic mortar, dating to c. 100 BC - AD 200. An end-looped cosmetic pestle. The pestle is formed of curved bar of rounded section, tapered towards both ends it has a large recessed oval at one end. The opposing end is more markedly and appears as if turned back on itself to form a suspension loop. 

Cosmetic mortars such as this were utilised as part of a two-piece set to grind small quantities of powder possibly for cosmetics and probably had an association with fertility. Some terminals are in the form of human heads or animal heads and some are phallic. They appear unique to Britain during the later stages of the Iron Age and the Roman period, c.1st century-2nd century.
Similar examples on the database include: <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/989440">WMID-8B90EC</a> and <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/954342">IOW-2C45B4</a>
Jackson, R. 1985 Cosmetic sets from Late Iron and Roman Britain. Britannia XVI, 165-192.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Leicestershire
Date between 100 BC and 200
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FindIdentifier: 1003158
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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/1103518
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1103518/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 13 November 2020)
Other versions FindID 1003158 has multiple images: 1103517 1103518 1103519 1103520 search
Object location52° 42′ 20.88″ N, 0° 58′ 12.55″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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