Copper-alloy, 48.89 grams, 67.22 mm. 1st century BC. A solid cast grinder bed with deeply polished inner surface from long use. At one end the body of the grinder develops into a tauriform finial, and at the other there is an abraded zoomorphic detail probably from a ram- or dog-head. The cast ring on the lower surface is incomplete. Reference: cf. a complete example published in Murawski, P.G. Benet's Artefacts of England and the United Kingdom Ely, 2003 p.88 item I14-0401. Fine condition. Provenance: found Tilbury, Essex, England.