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Dig team uncovers coins, ceramics and 2,000-year-old tweezers


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A pair of 2,000-year-old tweezers has been found during an archaeological dig at a Roman villa in Leicester.

The centuries-old artefact was part of a haul of buried treasures, including copper brooches, medieval coins, ceramics and pottery found last week in Blackfriars.

The tweezers are believed to date back as far as the first century AD and would have been used to pluck stray hairs from the brows of Roman ladies – and possibly men, according to Philip Briggs, of Wardle Armstrong Archaeology, which carried out the dig.


Read more at Leicester Mercury

 

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