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4100 Cast copper alloy nail cleaner.jpg
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Bristol City Council, Kurt Adams, 2011-02-02 12:49:53
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4100 Cast copper alloy nail cleaner.jpg
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English: Cast copper alloy strap end with a nail cleaner terminal length 76mm, width 10mm, thickness 3mm, weight 5.29g. The loop is square in plane and slotted along the horizontal plane, perhaps for mounting onto a strap. The neck is oval in cross-section and is decorated with a series of recessed bands with a transverse collar at the end. This leads onto a leaf-shaped blade with rounded shoulders. The shaft is long and thin with a forked terminal.

The blade has been decorated with the crude image of a peacock, this has a rectangular body and tale, a semicircle above for the wings, the neck which is at a right angle to the body has a round head and simple triangular beak. The comb on the head is made of three radiating lines surmounted by a transverse line. The body and wing are in filled with hatched lines. all decoration is made with incised lines. The edge of the blade and shaft has linear dot border.

Date mid 1st to 2nd century
Depicted place (County of findspot) South Gloucestershire
Date between 200 and 400
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FindID: 427650
Old ref: GLO-952CA5
Filename: 4100 Cast copper alloy nail cleaner.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/314852
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/314852/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/427650
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