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Unique ID: YORYM-718C02
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete copper-alloy nail cleaner with high shoulder, of Roman date, c.AD 50 - 200. The blade is a pointed leaf shape, tapering gently from rounded shoulders to a narrow shaft which terminates in a worn break. The rounded shoulders taper to a sub-ovate neck with an attachment loop terminal which is in line with the blade. The blade is decorated on both sides with a faint incised spine.
The metal has a dark green patina and is worn. The nail cleaner is 32.9mm long, 9.6mm wide, 0.8mm thick and weighs 0.9g.
A similar example is illustrated in Eckardt and Crummy 2008, 122 fig. 60
Crummy (1983), p.58, states that the suspension loop is "often, though not invariably, at right angles to the plane of the blade".
Class:
High shoulder (Group)
Sub class: Eckardt, H. and Crummy, N. 2008, 122, fig. 60
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 200
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.9 mm
Width: 9.6 mm
Thickness: 0.8 mm
Weight: 0.9 g
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Other reference: YMT : E05799
4 Figure: SE9328
Four figure Latitude: 53.74009825
Four figure longitude: -0.59147212
1:25K map: SE9328
1:10K map: SE92NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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