Rights Holder: Suffolk County Council
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Unique ID: SF-1D26E1
Object type certainty: Certain
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A pair of cast copper alloy Roman or Early Medieval tweezers. They have an oval-shaped loop terminal, having a broad longitudinal groove. Both arms are decorated with zones of transverse lines and corresponding bevelled edges. The decoration starts at the base of the loop with three sets of three narrow grooves and ridges. Then after a gap of c.10mm there are two similar bands, again with bevelled edges.This decoration finishes about halfway along the arms, which then flare toward their ends which turn in at an angle of around 90 degrees. The tweezers measure 50.11mm in length, 3.41mm in width at the loop and 8.75mm in width at the end. The arms are 1.26mm in thickness and the object weighs 5.67g.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 850
Quantity: 1
Length: 50.11 mm
Thickness: 1.25 mm
Weight: 5.67 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st May 2011
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Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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