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NAIL CLEANER
Unique ID: HAMP-7749D3
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A worn and abraded fragment probably from a cast copper-alloy Roman toilet article. The fragment has a sub-trapezoidal shape and appears to be broken at both ends. It is decorated seemingly unifacially with an incised cross in saltire between two transverse incisions. The longer edges on this face also have diagonal nicks. The end featuring the cross decoration incurves to a width of 4.2mm at the break, from 7.2mm. From the decorated end the fragment tapers to a minimum width of 4.1mm. At this end the object widens slightly to 4.9mm; there is a slight indentation to both sides before what appears to be the beginning of a broken loop. Whilst this could have been part of a toilet article such as a nail cleaner, the putative loop may have been the end loop of a bracelet.
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: 27.3 mm
Width: 7.2 mm
Thickness: 1.7 mm
Weight: 1.4 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 13th June 2006
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: E1754
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: East Hampshire (District)
Parish or ward: Hawkley (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU7428
Four figure Latitude: 51.046594
Four figure longitude: -0.945749
1:25K map: SU7428
1:10K map: SU72NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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