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TWEEZERS
Unique ID: NLM-222CAB
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy tweezers. A thick strip which was narrow at its mid-part and expanded towards its ends, where the metal is thinner, folded to form a pair of tweezers. The end of each arm is crimped. The display side of each arm bears stamped ring and dot of diameter 2.4mm, with five on one side and at least three - possibly more - on the other, haphazardly arranged. The object is complete, retaining its tensile strength, though bent, presumably adventitious post-depositional damage. Tweezers are a common component of furnished inhumation and cremation burials of the early Anglo-Saxon period. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 410-700.
Length (as found): 41mm, Width: 11.7mm, Thickness (at loop): 2.0mm, Weight: 4.03gms
Notes:
The finder suggests this to be part of an assemblage amounting to c.5% of material recovered from an extensive site, the rest being removed illicitly without record. Archaeological opinion holds the site to have been of equivalent character to Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, in terms of its material culture. Coins are under-represented in the group
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 410
Date to: Circa AD 700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 41 mm
Width: 11.7 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 4.03 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 1995 - Sunday 31st December 2000
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM37259
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Stamped
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Keelby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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