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NAIL CLEANER
Unique ID: LIN-4691E0
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Incomplete copper-alloy Roman nail-cleaner strap-end of the amphora-shaped type. The strap end has a lozenge shaped body decorated with a border of punched dots. The head is missing, but at the neck there are two loops. There is a knop at either side angle at the centre. The bottom has a simple linear collar and the object terminates with a splayed V-shaped end, reminiscent of a nail cleaner terminal.
Class:
Strap end with rounded lugs
Sub class: Eckardt, H. and Crummy, N. 2008, 137-38, fig. 80
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 250
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 39 mm
Width: 14 mm
Thickness: 1.5 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: North Kesteven (District)
Parish or ward: Heighington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF0269
Four figure Latitude: 53.20829
Four figure longitude: -0.474207
1:25K map: TF0269
1:10K map: TF06NW
Grid reference source: Centred on village (which isn't a parish)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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