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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy spoon, the handle of the spoon survives and the bowl is missing. The handle is now bent but if it was straight is would measure c70mm in length and it measures c2.5mm in width, it has a rectangular cross-section and tapers to a point at its terminal. At the bowl end the handle has been decorated on its front face, for a length of 15mm, with two parallel rows of zig-zag indentations, which leaves a longitudinal row of lozenge shapes down the centre of the face. At the bowl end the handle becomes flat and on the lower face there is a curvilinear projection which would have been at the beginning of the bowl. The shape of this projection implies that the missing bowl would have been mandolin-shaped originally. Similar spoons, although larger, without decorated handles and with their mandolin-shaped bowls surviving, have been found at Colchester and are believed to have been used throughout the Roman period (Crummy 1983, 96-70, fig 73, no's; 2014-2018). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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