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#Archaeology31 ‘Point’
Roman stylus pens had a pointed end to scratch messages into the wax surface of wooden writing tablets. The flat end was for smoothing wax for reuse. Here’s a stylus alongside a tablet with Roman London’s oldest commercial record, dated 8th January AD 57. pic.twitter.com/TVvFTzWY5i

— Alison Fisk (@AlisonFisk) January 12, 2021