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NAIL CLEANER
Unique ID: BERK-8416F1
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A Roman copper alloy nail-cleaner with exuberant neck decoration (Group/Type). In plan the nail cleaner has a circular loop which is in the same plane as the blade but bent perperdicular to it through damage. At the necked base of the loop the width of the blade increases to form square shoulders from which it tapers evenly towards the terminal end to form a sub triangular shape. The blade is decorated along each side with filed notches at the edges. The front surface is further decorated with two engraved transverse lines above the bifurcated end. 43-410 AD. Dimensions: length 35.39mm; width 11.62mm; weight 3.31g
Notes:
Found during the Weekend Wanderers King Alfred the Great Rally 26-28 Aug
Class:
nail-cleaner with exuberant neck decoration (Group/Type)
Sub class: Eckardt, H. and Crummy, N. 2008, 123, fig. 63
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Returned to finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Exactly AD 43
Date to: Exactly AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35.39 mm
Width: 11.62 mm
Weight: 3.31 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 26th August 2006
Rally details.
This object was found at Weekend Wanderers - King Alfred the Great 06
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Ticket no. Or 269
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Vale of White Horse (District)
To be known as: Letcombe Regis
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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