Rights Holder: York Museums Trust
CC License:
Our images can be used under a CC BY attribution licence (unless stated otherwise).
Unique ID: YORYM-6A81A4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy nail cleaner of Roman date, c.AD 50 - 200. Crummy Type 2a; Eckardt and Crummy 2008, 120, fig. 59. 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 collared neck with an attachment loop terminal which is in line with the blade. The loop is broken and worn and 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 40.8mm long, 13.7mm wide, 5.3mm thick and weighs 4.4g.
A similar example is illustrated in Crummy (1983), p.58, fig.62, no.1872 and is classed as a Type 2a which date to the mid-1st-2nd century AD. In the description of this type Crummy states that the suspension loop is "often, though not invariably, at right angles to the plane of the blade".
Class:
Cast with moulded neck and shouldered blade
Sub class: Eckardt and Crummy, 2008, moulded neck; Crummy Type 2a
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: 40.8 mm
Width: 13.7 mm
Thickness: 5.3 mm
Weight: 4.4 g
This information is restricted for your access level.
Other reference: YMT : E05950
4 Figure: TA1769
Four figure Latitude: 54.10359247
Four figure longitude: -0.21210174
1:25K map: TA1769
1:10K map: TA16NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
No references cited so far.