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: 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: 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: 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: OXON-B9468E
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman nail cleaner  A complete Roman copper alloy nail cleaner (toilet article) dating to circa AD 100 - 300. Most of the suspension loop and the forked tail of the nail cleaner are missing. The nail cleaner comprises a flat, leaf-shaped blade which tapers down from curved, offset shoulders to an old break which would originally have terminated in a forked tail.  At the top of the nail cleaner there are two small stumps which curve out towards the shoulders of the cleaner and would originally have created a circular susp…
Created on: Friday 28th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 13th February 2024
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Record ID: OXON-A1C6B9
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Roman nail cleaner dating to c. AD 43-150.  The nail cleaner comprises a circular suspension loop pierced with a circular hole (c. 3.31mm wide).  The loop then tapers to a narrow waisted-section below, followed by an expanded elongated sub-oval or ‘leaf-shaped’ plate with wide rounded shoulders that taper to a narrow bifurcate terminal.  The bottom of which extends a forked tail.  The front of the nail cleaner is decorated with a single incised line running through the centre of the body.  The reverse is undecorated. The…
Created on: Monday 13th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2023
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Record ID: OXON-57330F
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy nail-cleaner strap-end of Late Roman date (c. AD 300-400). The main body has offset shoulders, crescent-shaped lugs and a leaf-shaped blade, which tapers gently to the end which is rounded. Two prongs would have flanked the end but may have been broken or worn away in antiquity.  The handle features a waisted terminal and a complete suspension loop. A decoration is simple punched and ring-and-dot form with the addition of a decorative grove that runs from the base of the tapered end along the length of the blade with a line of incised pellets bord…
Created on: Wednesday 4th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 27th June 2023
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Record ID: OXON-14BC33
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman (Late 4th centuries) nail cleaner: The copper alloy nail cleaner is complete. It has a worn loop with a moulded collar beneath. The collar is in the form of two back-to-back crescents. These are above a long stem/handle which has grooves forming ribbing, but they are very worn through use. The junction of the handle and body of the nail cleaner also has two back-to-back crescents. The body of the nail cleaner is an elongated, inverted drop shape with the tip being forked. The outer face of the body is decorated with a series of low-relief ring and dots, a low-relief lozenge frame…
Created on: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Last updated: Friday 6th January 2023
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Record ID: OXON-EF1214
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy nail cleaner dating to c.AD 100-300. The object is missing the top half furthest away from the cleaning head which appears to have been broken off. The nail cleaner is made up of a narrow fluted flat plate from the bottom of which extends a forked tail. This forked tail has an incised line running lengthways down the centre. The nail cleaner is flat in cross section and has a medium green patina. The nail cleaner is 34.5mm long, 7.2mm wide, 0.6mm thick and weighs 2.3 grams. Examples of this type of nail cleaner found at dated contexts can b…
Created on: Friday 1st July 2022
Last updated: Friday 5th August 2022
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Record ID: SUR-4D12B8
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Roman copper alloy nail-cleaner strap-end, with crescent-shaped side lugs at the rear terminal and a leaf-shaped plate which tapers to a bifurcated tip. The front of the plate has a border of punched dots, within which is an incised panel of decoration comprising a fish, facing towards the rear edge, with mouth open to grasp a spray of vegetation with trilobed ends. The fish has details of fins and tail clearly shown and sits within a border of zig-zag decoration. The plate has two rivet holes, one at the rear end and one towards the tapering tip; the latter containing a rusted…
Created on: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
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Record ID: OXON-D4C487
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman cast copper alloy nail cleaner. The object has a clear transverse break at from end. At this point it is broadly square sectioned (although it has been twisted slightly). From this point it is relatively even sided for c. two thirds of its length after which point it widens and flattens over its final third. In this third it has a large D-shaped projection that narrows to c.1.1mm thick at its apex. Beyond this on the the opposite plain the item flattens and extends into two prongs with a concave space between. The object has a chipped brown green patina. …
Created on: Friday 6th August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 31st August 2021
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Record ID: BERK-FD5C14
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy nail cleaner of Roman date.The nail cleaner has an integral loop which sits atop an 'amphora-shaped' body. The body is curved at the top and tapers to a bi-fid tip at the bottom. On each side of the nail cleaner are two lines along the edges. The patina is mostly a dark green but there are signs of the original bronze/brass colour.
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
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Record ID: OXON-A1B7BD
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy nail cleaner, triangular with a curved or crescent tip. On one face there is an incised decoration, with a vertical incised line running from the middle of the cleaner and terminating in a smaller curved notch at the bottom.
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Last updated: Friday 18th March 2022
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Record ID: OXON-7BF5D7
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy nail cleaner dating to c.AD 100-300. The object is only missing part of its attachment loop. The nail cleaner is made up of an elongated sub oval plate from the bottom of which extends a forked tail. This forked tail has an incised line running lengthways down the centre. At the opposite end of the plate is a narrow rectangular neck above which projects a circular loop that is missing its a segment between 9 and 12 o'clock. The nail cleaner is flat in cross section and has a medium green patina. The nail cleaner is 40.9mm long, 7.1mm wide, 0.…
Created on: Wednesday 4th December 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th May 2020
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Record ID: OXON-1EA607
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper alloy nail cleaner of grooved collar type of 3rd-4th century date. The fragment consists of a shaft of copper alloy, D-shaped in cross section and terminating in a worn break at one end (thus determining a function difficult). At the other end the shaft expands into a circular knop or suspension loop, 1.95mm in diameter. The shaft is decorated with two bands of incised lines at the top and bottom with an incised panel of lattice in between. Length: 21.51mm, Width: 6.30mm, Thickness of the suspension loop: 2.7mm, Weight: 3.3g.
Created on: Tuesday 25th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 17th January 2022
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Record ID: OXON-421CE1
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy Roman nail cleaner of Grooved Collar Type 3rd-4th centuries AD. The nail cleaner has an integral loop for suspension (now filled with a corroded substance), below which are two moulded double collars each with incised criss-cross decoration. The rounded shank narrows to bifid tip, one side of which is broken.
Created on: Wednesday 13th February 2019
Last updated: Sunday 18th April 2021
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Record ID: OXON-120E45
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A very worn and incomplete probable nail cleaner of Late Roman date. Only the central section survives with old breaks to the base where the nail cleaner element may have been, and the top, which may have held a loop. The central section has a design of three annulets at the widest part of the end and a featured border. Suggested date AD 200-400.
Created on: Monday 24th December 2018
Last updated: Sunday 18th April 2021
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Record ID: OXON-465709
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman nail cleaner probably dating from the mid-late third century. The nail cleaner is broadly cylindrical, flattening at one end into a forked and grooved terminal (the nail cleaner). The opposing end tapers to a short point (the tip of which is missing), with a central expanding goove, possibly another type of nail cleaner / toilet implement. The cylindrical body of the nail cleaner is decorated with overlapping linear incisions forming 'x' shapes which appear randomly around the circumference. This nail cleaner does not incorporate a loop. Similar n…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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Record ID: ASHM-C6B606
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete, worn bent and damaged cast copper alloy Roman nail cleaner of Baldock Type dating from the first or second century AD. The nail cleaner has a slender leaf-shaped blade which would have tapered to a bifurcated tip which is now broken and missing. There is no visible decoration on the blade. The nail cleaner has a suspension loop set perpendicular to the blade which extends from the rounded shoulders. Similar to Crummy's (1981) Type 2a, dating from c. AD 43-200. This may have been part of a set which hung from a chatelaine or similar.
Created on: Monday 16th July 2018
Last updated: Monday 14th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Childrey', grid reference and parish protected.