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TWEEZERS

Unique ID: SF7801

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Complete but bent pair of tweezers made from thin copper-alloy strip. Although they look unprepossessing - almost like a piece of modern copper-alloy ribbon - both the expanded loop and the ends inturned at a slight angle can be seen. The strip flares from 4 mm wide at the loop to 5 mm wide at the ends, and is decorated with a pair of very fine longitudinal grooves. The original unbent length must have been about 50 mm. Tweezers can be difficult to date, especially when they have little decoration; these might be Roman, or alternatively early-medieval.

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 43
Date to: AD 1066

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 50 mm
Width: 5 mm
Weight: 2.18 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st September 2001

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Forest Heath (District)
To be known as: SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM

Spatial coordinates

Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

References cited

No references cited so far.

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Recording Institution: SF
Created: 22 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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