Copper alloy tweezers. Also 635.7 decorated with punch marks. From VR72-80, Victoria Road, Winchester, Hampshire. Excavated by Winchester Archaeology Section, 1972-1980.

Copper alloy tweezers

Roman, mid- 1st-4th century AD

Found during excavations by Winchester Museums Service Archaeology Section at Victoria Road, Winchester in the mid- to late 1970s

This pair of tweezers is simply formed from a strip of copper alloy, and bears stamped decoration of hatched lozenges. It probably originally formed a set with an ear scoop and a nail cleaner suspended on a ring.

The indigenous Iron Age people of Britain adopted the Roman habit of bathing and personal hygiene with enthusiam, and such objects are common site finds in Winchester.