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Class
- Household and Utility
Material
- Iron

DefinitionPunch
MaterialIron
DimensionsLength: 16.5cm; width: 10 mm tapering to 6 mm
DescriptionIron implement, possibly chisel or punch, square in cross section, which tapers from a wider end to a narrower. Narrower end has slight protrusion, which is round in cross section, suggesting a pointed punch-point.
State of ConservationProtrusion is broken. Wider end is deformed, possibly from hammering but possibly also broken. Whole piece is slightly twisted. Both ends broken, slightly twisted. Not deteriorated.
ComparandaSimpson 2000, pl. 43, 12, pl. 44, 3; Alicu 1994, fig. 1.1

Record Details

Area
- Area D (Barracks)

Context VM_5001
- Definitiondeposit churned by modern plowing beneath 5000

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Author of Record
- Ryan Ricciardi

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Fentress, E., Goodson, C., Maiuro, M., Andrews, M., Dufton, J.A. (eds.) 2016. Villa Magna: an Imperial Estate and its Legacies. Excavations 2006–2010. British School at Rome, Rome.

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