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NAIL CLEANER
Unique ID: NMS-C41B28
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Roman nail cleaner of Crummy (1983) Type 2a. Upper end broken across suspension-loop, lower end broken, tip missing. Extant length 42mm. Maximum width 7.7mm. Second half 1st - 2nd century.
Class: Crummy Type 2a
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 42 mm
Width: 7.7 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 25th November 2018 - Sunday 25th November 2018
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: KLMD012019
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Forest Heath (District)
Parish or ward: Newmarket (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL6066
Four figure Latitude: 52.26888096
Four figure longitude: 0.34339195
1:25K map: TL6066
1:10K map: TL66NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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