Record ID: OXON-3C09BE
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy suspension loop, probably from a Roman nail-cleaner dating to the period AD 43-300. The object consists of a cast integral circular loop with a narrow waisted-section below, followed by an expanded, flattened, rectangular section, which becomes narrower at its lower end. The surface and break are all corroded and well worn. One surface is decorated on the narrow rectangular section but a series of lightly incised wavy lines within an outer sub-rectangular border.  The reverse of the object is plain. The object measures: 24.32mm in length, 1…
Created on: Monday 8th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-81CAC9
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman nail cleaner with moulded neck and shouldered blade,dating from the 1st to 2nd century AD. The blade is narrow and undecorated, tapering from round shoulders 6.8mm wide to a bifurcated tip 3.4mm wide (one point is missing). The neck has a lozengiform cross section with four flat sides, each decorated with deeply incised oblique lines creating a zig-zag effect. The neck widens slightly into a rounded suspension loop, 6.8mm in diameter,  set perpendicular to the plane of the blade.
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-1A9FD5
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flat triangular copper alloy fragment comprising the tip of a Roman nail cleaner. The tip of the fragment is bifurcated. The surface is pitted with corrosion but appears undecorated.
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: OXON-092B55
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman cast copper alloy nail cleaner (toilet article) dating to circa AD 100 - 300.  The nail cleaner has three broad zones, an attatchment tab, oval main body and narrow fork section. The tab is slightly trapezoidal in plan being wider at its transverse terminal than at the interface with the main body. It is pierced by two circular holes one larger one smaller (2.0mm diameter, 1.5mm diameter) placed along a line running throug the middle of the tab. The interface between this and the main body is marked by chip gouged decoration forming triangular inse…
Created on: Thursday 29th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-CA0746
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Romano British nail-cleaner strap-end. The plate is oval, tapering forward to the (now missing) point and back to the hinged rear, which has concave sides and a crescent shaped double lug at the neck. The rear end has a broken attachment loop orientated perpendicular to the plate. The front of the object has incised decoration comprising Christian allegorical motifs (from left to right): a peacock; a "tree of life"; a roundel of running oblique dashes with four internal spokes and a small hole at the centre; a triangular motif (p…
Created on: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-1DACE2
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nail cleaner. Elaborately cast, with incised abstract decoration. Could be much more recent. Suggested date: possibly Late Roman, 200-410 Length: 41.6mm, Width: 11.9mm, Thickness: 5.5mm, Weight: 3.12gms
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
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Record ID: BUC-4A6A1A
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman nail cleaner dating from the 1st to 2nd century AD. The cleaner is leaf shape, and flat. The terminal end of the cleaner is shaped into two rounded prongs, there is a central notch in the centre. There is a groove running up from this notch to the top of the nail cleaner, on one side it isn't as clear. The nail cleaner widens at the top, and has a rounded body. The two sides of the rounded body are irregular, and don't mirror each other. On one side there is a ring and dot motif either side of the groove. The other side is worn, and there is red brown …
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th December 2023
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Record ID: NLM-0E617C
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nail cleaner. Cast straight-sided strip with a bifurcated end defined by a V-shaped nick, and with a deep notch at the other end. One deep diagonal nick and multiple diagonal file marks similarly aligned appear on the display side only. Suggested date: probably Roman, 43-410 Length: 40.9mm, Width: 5.3mm, Thickness: 1.6mm, Weight: 2.63gms
Created on: Tuesday 31st October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calcethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WREX-C1A12F
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper alloy late Roman zoomorphic type nail-cleaner strap-end dating c. 250-410AD.  The nail cleaner has a piriform blade with rounded shoulders and a V shaped groove on the front terminating in a bifed tip. The object has two stylised animal heads just above the curved shoulders. The object is elaborately decorated with a series of punched rings and dots, incised lines and hatched areas and most closely resembles the example from Tortworth as illustrated by Eckardt and Crummy (2006 Fig. 1 No. 1138).  The reverse is plain. The top of the object narrows and is att…
Created on: Friday 27th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Monxton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-7D1735
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy probable nail cleaner (uncertain type) of Roman date (c.43-200). Description: The object remains as the lower portion of the blade ending in two prongs, one of which is now broken. The blade is broken diagonally just beneath the shoulders. The plate has marginal grooves running parallel to its edges on both the front and reverse. The object has a medium green patina. It is bent at a right angle and scuffed on the surface, Measurements: length: 17.6mm; width: 9.4mm; thickness: 1.3mm; weight: 0.66g
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
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Record ID: SUR-BEB1BE
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large and incomplete Roman copper alloy nail cleaner with a lozengiform blade, 58.3mm in length, made from a flat piece of metal 2.1mm thick. The object has surface decoration comprising a zig-zag along the mid line with flanking curved lines of punched dots. The edge of the plate is decorated with punched dots. The terminal has a forked cleaner; the other has a suspension loop with a small collar with incuse concave notches. The loop has broken from wear.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
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Record ID: OXON-3E10E9
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but bent cast copper alloy Roman nail cleaner of grooved collar type of 3rd-4th century date. The nail cleaner is complete and unusual for this type of object mostly circular in cross section down its main body. It has been bent irregularly about half way down its length but is otherwise intact. The object beings with a projecting sub-rectangular tab (4.3mm long and 4.6mm wide) that is pierced by a circular hole (2.2mm diameter) and is rectangular in cross section. Beneath this the object becomes circular in cross section. This has a collar followed by a bulbous sectio…
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Littleworth CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-AE4E8C
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy late Roman nail cleaner, dating to c. AD 350-390. The nail cleaner is of leaf shaped type, it is wider at the shoulders and narrows towards the tip. The suspension loop is sub rectangular in shape, narrowing slightly at the neck. There is a circular perforation in the loop. The neck is decorated with four incised lines. Running down the blade on either side is an incised border. The tip has two points, with a central groove in between.  The nail cleaner has a red brown patina, with patches of mid green. It measures 50.2mm in length, 6.8mm in width, 0.…
Created on: Wednesday 20th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 22nd September 2023
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Record ID: ESS-1BF3D3
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy nail cleaner (Baldock Type 1) of Roman date (c.43-200). Description: The object consists of a leaf-shaped plate with rounded shoulders and ending in two prongs, one of which is now missing. The plate has an integrally cast perforated head set perpendicular to the plate. The neck is circular in cross section with four sets of four moulded, angled grooves running each side of the front and back. The plate has marginal grooves running parallel to its edges on both the front and reverse. The object has a medium green patina.  Measuremen…
Created on: Friday 1st September 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st September 2023
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Record ID: NLM-5B56E9
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nail cleaner. A thin cast plate or blade of lentoid form, constricted to form a folded tab at its upper end and tapered towards the other end [tip bent/lost]. Traces of horizontally incised lines appear on the display side of the plate and define the meeting of tab and blade. Black material may be degraded white metal plating, an early Roman preference, or alternatively oil, lacquer or other surface treatment pointing to a later - post-medieval - date. The loop could show this to come from a cosmetic set [cf. NLM-4AC9FA]. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Post-Medieva…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-803399
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman nail cleaner dating from AD 25-400. The cleaner is leaf shape, and flat. The terminal end of the cleaner is worn and broken, originally it would have been shaped into two rounded prongs. There are transverse grooves running around the neck, which ends in a worn break.  Above this there would have been a circular blade attachment loop. The nail cleaner has a light green and brown patina. It measures 39.1mm in length, 9.8mm in width, 1.2mm in thickness, and weighs 1.68g. Similar nail cleaners with a moulded neck and shouldered blade can be s…
Created on: Monday 31st July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: OXON-3A99A9
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy nail-cleaner strap-end of Late Roman date (c. AD 300-400). The nail cleaner is truncated by two transverse breaks across its body. One is placed just before where the loop would have begin and another around the point a channel would have begun. The surviving fragment is made of a rectangular cross sectioned sheet that is sub-rectangular in plan having very convex long edges. The point of maximum width is placed one third of the way down the fragment. One wide surface of the item has incised decoration. This includes three ring and dot motifs …
Created on: Friday 28th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 9th August 2023
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Record ID: NLM-38AF8B
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brown patinated copper alloy nail cleaner. With stamped decoration.Corroded. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Length: 41.6mm, Width: 10.6mm, Thickness: 1.2mm, Weight: 1.80gms
Created on: Friday 28th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 28th July 2023
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Record ID: SUR-12FF2E
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman cast copper alloy nail cleaner, 55.5mm in length. The plate is leaf-shaped with a narrow projecting neck which has a forked terminal. The surface of the plate is decorated in the fashion of a leaf, with obliquely angled veins flanking a central stalk defined by rows of small punched dots. There are rows of larger punched dots occupying the spaces between each pair of veins and a row of small punched dots running down the neck to the terminal from the stalk of the leaf. The change in angle between the plate and projecting terminal has a small collar defined by flanking pair…
Created on: Friday 14th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th July 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-686D66
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy nail cleaner of Roman date, c.AD 100-250. Crummy Type 2b. The blade is a stylised 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 which terminates with a worn break shortly before the now lost attachment loop terminal. The blade, which resembles an elongated heart shape is decorated on one side with a faint incised spine. The object has a shallow bend. The metal has a dark green patina and is worn. The nail cleaner is 39.04mm l…
Created on: Thursday 6th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2023
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