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COSMETIC PESTLE
Unique ID: LIN-C7FCBA
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A possible Roman end-looped pestle from a cosmetic mortar. The object has a circular loop at the end, leading into a slender stem of circular section. A moulded collar separates the loop from an oval reel, from which three bulbous knops project at right angles to one another. The shank extends from the base of the reel, and turns just before the break.
The indentification of a cosmetic pestle is tentative. The knops may have impeded use, and the loop plate is set in a different plane to normal. However, the latter feature occasionally occurs, as on Jackson's pestle number 207 and on an end-looped mortar (237) that also happens to have a pair of low knops on its wall (Jackson, R. 2010 Cosmetic Sets of Late Iron Age and Roman Britain, British Museum Research Publications Number 181).
Notes:
Identification done from photo sent by finder. Additional details missing.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 44 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st May 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: North Kesteven (District)
Parish or ward: Kirkby La Thorpe (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF0845
Four figure Latitude: 52.99145521
Four figure longitude: -0.39246663
1:25K map: TF0845
1:10K map: TF04NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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