Record ID: NMS-38B3E7
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy, bent, tapering fragment of one arm of a pair of Middle Saxon tweezers. An estimated 90% of the arm survives with an old break close to the looped return of the missing second arm. The wider unbroken end of the arm is nibbed inwards to act as a grip. The outer side is decorated with a total of twelve ring and dots along the length of the arm placed in an alternate sequence of a transverse pair followed by a single central. A complete pair of tweezers with different decoration is recorded as BH-FA4427 on this database. Circa AD600-800. Estimated surviving length 42mm mm…
Created on: Friday 26th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-31F30B
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete pair of Roman copper alloy tweezers, of date AD 100 - 200. The tweezers consists of a long thin sheet of metal, rectangular in cross-section, folded round to form a circular loop in the middle. The arms decrease from 8.3mm wide at the loop to 2.7mm wide at the end. The tip of one arm is bent back on itself. Both arms are deformed with a curve in the middle of their length. The metal is undecorated and has a green patina. The tweezers were found at the same location as a Chatelaine brooch, PUBLIC-9E4646 and another pair of tweezers, PUBLIC-318A71. ​Length:39.8mm, wid…
Created on: Friday 26th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reepham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-318A71
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman copper-alloy pair of tweezers of date, c.AD 100-200. The tweezers are comprised of a single piece of metal folded in half to create two parallel plates with a loop for attachment at the apex. Both plates are rectangular in plan and section with slight curves towards the tweezing ends. The tweezers are undecorated. The metal has a green patina.The tweezers were found at the same location as the Chatelaine brooch, PUBLIC-9E4646. The tweezers are 64.2mm long, 4.8mm wide, 1.1mm thick and weighs 5.0g. Similar examples are illustrated in Crummy (1983), p.59, and are reco…
Created on: Friday 26th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reepham Area', grid reference and parish protected.