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Description: | An incomplete silver spoon, part the handle of the spoon survives but its terminal and bowl are missing due to an old break. The handle is now slightly bent and measures 77mm in length, it is circular in cross-section, measuring c4mm in diameter at its widest point. It tapers towards its terminal, and is decorated towards the bowl end with two pairs of circumferencial grooves. 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. Where the bowl joins the stem there are four more transverse grooves on the top face. The shape of this projection implies that the missing bowl could have been mandolin or possibly pear shaped originally. Similar spoons, although larger, without decorated handles and with their mandolin or pear shaped bowls surviving, have been found at Colchester. The pear-shaped bowled spoon are dated to the first half of the 2nd century and the mandolin shaped examples to have been used throughout the Roman period (Crummy 1983, 96-70, fig 73, no's; 2014-2018). Identified under the Treasure Act at the British Museum. Record updated 19/3/04"
A broken Roman silver spoon, comprising most of the handle and the open scroll offset by which it was joined to the bowl. The tapered handle, now distorted and lacking its pointed tip, is of circular cross-section. It is decorated with three pairs of incised ring-mouldings, one immediately above the broken offset.
Date: 3rd - 4th century AD.
Length: 77 mm.
Weight: 7.4 g.
Ralph Jackson
Dept. of Prehistory and Europe
British Museum" | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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