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TWEEZERS
Unique ID: YORYM-3D23D1
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A complete copper alloy pair of tweezers of Roman date. The tweezers are comprised of a single piece of metal folded in half to create two parallel plates with a loop for attachment at the apex. The tweezers are rectangular in section though tapering in thickness from the apex to the tips. From the neck the tweezing ends expand in width to form triangular plates with steeply curved ends. The tweezers appear to be undecorated.
The metal has a mid green patina and is worn. The tweezers are 53.2mm long, 2.9mm wide at the neck, 7.6mm wide at the tweezing ends, 1.1mm thick and weighs 5.4g.
Similar examples are illustrated in Crummy, p.59.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 53.2 mm
Width: 7.6 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight: 5.4 g
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Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Millington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE8153
Four figure Latitude: 53.96674261
Four figure longitude: -0.76677304
1:25K map: SE8153
1:10K map: SE85SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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