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Roman bone object
Portion of an ox horn-core, ground flat along one side. Mr G.C. Boon noted that "according to the 1964 charge hand, who in his youth has been apprenticed to a local plasterer, his master had used an identical implement to finish difficult corners of plasterwork, and it may be claimed that this is a Roman tool made for the same purpose.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
81.79H/11.223
Find Information
Site Name: Caerleon Fortress Baths, Caerleon
Grid Reference: ST 33 91
Collection Method: excavation
Notes: from the filling under the phase V floor over the S.W. aspidal bath of the frigidarium, or from the mortary back-filling of the robbed pier-base nearby.
Measurements
length / mm:110
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