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Record ID: WAW-DD3BA5
Object type: EAR SCOOP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval cosmetic implement, which combines an ear scoop with a toothpick. The section of the shank closest to the scoop is twisted. Due to damage, the shank has been bent in two places.
The implement is silver and dates from the mid to late fourteenth century (see Egan and Pritchard, Dress Accessories 1150-1450, pp. 378-379, No. 1759).
Dimensions: reconstructed length 104 mm, width 6 mm.
Created on: Friday 18th May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 9th August 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Alcester', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NCL-B56DD1
Object type: EAR SCOOP
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Roman ear scoop. The stem of the object is rectangular in section. It probably belonged to a suspended manicure set; there is a perforation for suspension at the end opposite the scoop. The stem is perpendicular to the angle of the loop; it is wide and flat and tapers to 2.71mm just before the bowl of the shallow concave scoop which measures 3.63mm in diameter.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd August 2012
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Record ID: KENT-B3D336
Object type: EAR SCOOP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent silver earscoop with a shaft of quadrangular section and tapered point, ending in a pick perhaps for use as a toothpick. No decoration. This object was probably part of a toilet set kept in a case. It dates to the 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2006
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Hythe', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NARC-0BCA74
Object type: EAR SCOOP
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman cosmetic or surgical implement. The fragment is the scoop from an ear scoop or a spoon-probe. The scoop is small and narrow, and such scoops tend to be associated with the surgical ear scoop as opposed to the small cupped types which are thought to have been for cosmetic use. However, spoon-probes, used for the application of cosmetics also have a narrow scoop, and without the rest of the artefact it is difficult to determine whether this is a surgical or cosmetic article. Some examples of scoops are demonstrated in Crummy 'The Roman Small Finds From Excavations …
Created on: Tuesday 10th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2012
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Record ID: LEIC-28CDC5
Object type: EAR SCOOP
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy ligular or spoon-probe, 109mm long and 6mm at widest part. The item has an oval shaped bulge, which is circular in cross section, 13mm long and 3.5mm wide at one end. This narrows to form a shaft which starts 1.5mm wide and very gradually widens to 4mm. At this point, 22mm from the end the object tapers in sharply and a band of decoration begins. The decoration consists of two eliptical knops 5mm wide, above this is a balustrade? or pear-shaped bulge 6mm wide. The object then tapers outwards slightly and terminates with a band made up of three pronounced ridges. The …
Created on: Tuesday 6th April 2004
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-9C4D03
Object type: EAR SCOOP
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy Ligula or scoop, 90mm long and 6mm wide. The object consists of a shallow elongated bowl, 25mm long and 6mm at its widest point, which is missing its end. This terminates with an indented bead attached to a shaft. The shaft is circular and 3mm in diameter and has short diagonal incisions running along its surface for c. 20mm. It terminates in a oval shaped bulge which is 11mm long and 5mm wide. The shaft appears to have been deliberately bent three quarters of the way along its length.
Created on: Tuesday 30th March 2004
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: NLM5908
Object type: EAR SCOOP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Plain ear scoop.
Created on: Tuesday 9th October 2001
Last updated: Friday 6th April 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'North Notts 8', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM5358
Object type: EAR SCOOP
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small roman ear spoon.
Created on: Monday 1st October 2001
Last updated: Friday 4th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'LINCOLNSHIRE LUDFORD', grid reference and parish protected.
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