Record ID: DEV-7D5D6A
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy nail cleaner-strap end dating to c. AD 250-410. The nail cleaner consists of a piriform blade 34.9mm long, which widens to 11.8mm at its rounded shoulders, then narrows down to 5.5 mm before it terminates in a 5.8mm wide split end. An incised V-shaped groove begins 10.9mm above the terminal, the point bifurcating c. 3mm above the tip. A likely split attachment end has been lost to a relaltively unabraded but patinated break, leaving the blade surmounted by a sub-rectangular bar which is flanked by crescentic lugs at the juncture between the bar and blade. The obje…
Created on: Monday 18th December 2017
Last updated: Friday 7th August 2020
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Record ID: DEV-C4F5F9
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy nail cleaner with a swollen blade of Eckardt and Crummy 2008, 122, probably dating to c. AD 75-250. The object consists of a flat blade, 0.8mm thick, in the form of a stylised leaf. With a transverse oval plate at its shoulders, 14.1mm thick, from the bottom of which projects a long, narrow sub-rectangular neck which bifurcates and terminates in a split end of two points, 3.9m wide. The split point is further defined by a V-shaped groove on one face. From the top of the blade expands a narrow shank, rectangular in plan and cross-section, 3.9mm wide by 2.1mm thick,…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Friday 7th August 2020
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Record ID: DEV-BB8406
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper alloy moulded and shouldered blade nail cleaner, probably dating to c. AD 43-200. The object consists of a flat piriform blade in the form of a stylised leaf but missing its point. From the centre of the shoulders expands a rectangular shank cast into the form of two transverse collars and terminating in a circular attachment loop on the same plane as the blade. Crummy (1983: 58) defines such nail cleaners as her type 2a, which she dates to from the mid-1st and into the second century. Examples of Crummy's type 2b (dated by her as slightly later) have b…
Created on: Thursday 6th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 7th August 2020
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