File:NAIL CLEANER (FindID 717191).jpg

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NAIL CLEANER
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Stuart Noon, 2015-04-21 15:16:18
Title
NAIL CLEANER
Description
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An incomplete copper-alloy late Roman nail-cleaner dating 43 to 410AD. The object takes the form of a truncated lozenge and has a flat rectangular cross-section, with rounded edges. The nail cleaner has a broken trapezoidal attachment and the terminal is squared off with a small V-shaped removal within a longer longitudinal groove on the upper surface. This gives the strap-end a slight fork or bifid end. Though the prongs of the fork may be too short to be effectual, it is clearly reminiscent of a nail cleaner. Toilet instruments of this type, usually associated with full Chatelaine sets, are dateable to the wider Roman period only (43 - 410 AD). The object is decorated on one face with a triangle and conjoined ring and dot. It probably belongs in Crummy's Type 2a nail cleaners with leaf shaped blade, as Crummy, 1983: no. 1874 although there is also some similarity to nail cleaner strap end types as illustrated in Eckardt, H & Crummy, N, 2006 'Roman' or 'Native' Bodies in Britain: The Evidence of Late Roman Nail-Cleaner Strap-Ends, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 25 (1) p 83 - 103 which are usually dated to the 4th century AD.

The length is 58mm, the width is 13mm and the weight 4.97g.

Ref: Crummy, N., 1983 <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/publications/publication/id/152" title="View reference work's details">Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester, 1971-9</a> Colchester : Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd, 62 , 1941
Depicted place (County of findspot) Gloucestershire
Date between 43 and 400
Accession number
FindID: 717191
Old ref: LANCUM-65B73C
Filename: LANCUM65B73C.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/513767
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/513767/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 30 November 2020)
Object location51° 49′ 14.52″ N, 1° 49′ 51.17″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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