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TWEEZERS
Unique ID: SF-5835E8
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete and bent undecorated pair of copper-alloy tweezers of probable Roman or Early Medieval date. Only part of one arm survives, the remainder of the object is missing due to old breaks, now worn.
It is flat and rectangular with a slightly expanded base. At the top the arm narrows before terminating in old breaks.
This fragment measures 15.54mm in length before bending, 3.53mm in width at the top of the arm, 4.26mm in width at the base of the arm, 0.74mm in thickness, 0.50g in weight.
There is a similar example recorded on the PAS database (SF-AB64B6).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 15.54 mm
Width: 4.26 mm
Thickness: 0.74 mm
Weight: 0.5 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 2nd January 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: Yaxley
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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