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Early Medieval Tweezers
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Norfolk County Council, Mary Chester-Kadwell, 2013-04-30 12:31:17
Title
Early Medieval Tweezers
Description
English: Middle Saxon copper alloy tweezers. Cast, D-sectioned loop with notch-like mouldings on either side defining the beginning of the narrow arms which expand to wide, triangular terminals with in-turned blades. Incised lines follow the edge of the arms and blades, with a row of ten ring-and-dots on each arm and three rows of six, five and five ring-and-dots on one terminal and seven, six and six ring and dots on the other. A wire ring with twisted end-knots is secured to the loop.

Similar examples have been found at Hamwic (Hinton, 1996, 45, fig18, no.38/40 and 258/102) and Flixborough (Evans and Loveluck, 2009, 31, fig.1.12, no.215 and 220/221).

External diameter of wire ring 19mm. Length of tweezers 78mm. Width at blades 20mm. 8th - 9th century.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Norfolk
Date between 700 and 900
Accession number
FindID: 545157
Old ref: NMS-E44625
Filename: 4780_252022_MS_Tweezers_ILL.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/424950
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/424950/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/545157
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Object location52° 31′ 32.52″ N, 0° 30′ 27.32″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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