Eighteenth-Century Wig-Curler

What could it be? An Eighteenth-Century Wig-Curler

William Poole
Issue number
(2021): 15

Recent digging outside the Morris Garages on the college side brought to light a mysterious object, plucked from a trench by the Head Gardener, Paul Roper.  It is about a finger’s length, broadening towards its ends, obviously man-made, and when rung on the teeth giving the report of ceramic, perhaps pipeclay.  

 

New College, Oxford