Copper alloy tweezers

Copper alloy tweezers Copper alloy tweezers Copper alloy tweezers

Reproduction Tweezers

Copper alloy tweezers

Tweezers were an essential toilet item for the Vikings and most people would have had their own. They could be highly decorated as were many personal possessions. They would have been carried suspended from a brooch or belt.

Date

circa 700 — 800

Ascribed Culture

Original/Reproduction

Reproduction

Material

Collection

Viking Objects

Current Location

Private Ownership

Keywords

copper_alloy, Nottinghamshire, personal_hygiene, Portable_Antiquities_Scheme, reproduction, toilet_article, tweezers, Viking

Further information

You can see the original at Private Ownership.

Acknowledgements

Made by Adam Parsons of Blueaxe Reproductions

References

Portable Antiquities Scheme

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