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- Bar with Nail
- Bronze, iron
- L. 34 mm, w. 11 mm tapering to 7 mm, th. 2 mm.
- Thin, small bar that tapers toward one end and is broken at both ends. At the wide end, there is an attachment hole (~3 mm in diameter) in which is preserved the shaft of an iron nail. Although it is impossible to say, perhaps this fragment comes from a pair of tongs?
- Fair to poor. Broken at both ends. Bronze surfaces clean; corrosion product around the piercing that contains iron nail remains.
- Manning 1985, A 11-17 for iron tongs comparanda.