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Roman wooden writing tablet
Spall from the upper or lower edge of a wooden stylus writing tablet, retaining full width of the panel and three margins; wide-grained softwood. The recessed panel (for wax, of which no trace remains) is contained to the sides by raised margins; a single small hole partly preserved on the incomplete long margin would have been matched by another; these held the loops which bound panels together so that inscribed tabellae could be closed face-to-face.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
84.43H/8.2
Find Information
Site Name: Museum Garden, Caerleon
Grid Reference: ST 33 91
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1985
Notes: found in the filling of well 2
Measurements
width / mm:105
thickness / mm:7
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