Stylus
Styli were writing implements used with wax tablets. This one was found in Exeter and is among the earliest evidence of literacy in Devon.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 47/2005/14/1
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- iron
- Common Name
- stylus
- Simple Name
- stylus
- Period Classification
- Roman (43-410)
