Record ID: WILT-31265C
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman nail cleaner dating to the period c. AD 43 - 410. It measures 31.0mm in length, 12.25mm maximum width, 6.85mm minimum width, is 5.3mm thick and weighs 2.72 grams. The nail cleaner exhibits a circular knop with a projecting knop at the tip. Below the knop the are two circumfrential ridges flanking a circumfrential groove. The nail cleaner is decoated with foliate decoration. The nail cleaner i incomplete.
Created on: Monday 23rd November 2015
Last updated: Monday 23rd November 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-A00C14
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman (AD 300-410) copper alloy nail cleaner with multiple motifs. The nail cleaner is 85.6mm in length, 9.55mm maximum width, 2.15mm thick and weighs 6.39 grams. The complete loop is 8.8mm wide and internally shows signs of wear (the internal perforation is 5.35mm in length and 3.85mm wide). The loop extends from the end of the oval sectioned shaft. The shaft is decorated with multiple motifs consisting of transverse grooves located below the loop and above the expansion with a saltire incised in the centre. The shaft expands to two potentially incomplete cres…
Created on: Tuesday 11th August 2015
Last updated: Monday 6th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Devizes', grid reference and parish protected.