Rights Holder: Norfolk County Council
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Unique ID: NMS-F5F800
Object type certainty: Certain
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Pair of Romano-British copper alloy tweezers made from sheet strip of consistent width (5mm). Length 6.5mm. Similar to an example from Colchester (Crummy 1983 no.1879). Possibly medieval but quite unlike tweezers from 13th and 14th-century London (Dress Access. 380-3.)
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: AD 409
Quantity: 1
Length: 6.5 mm
Width: 5 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st March 2006 - Thursday 16th March 2006
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SMR reference number: 44044
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Crummy, N. | 1983 | Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester, 1971-9 | Colchester | Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd | no.1879 | ||
Egan, G. and Pritchard, F. | 1991 | Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London 3) (1991) | London | Stationery Office Books | 380-3 |