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Description: | A copper alloy possible spatula blade or spoon fragment of probable Early Medieval date. It is flat, with an upper straight edge 12.02mm long, which is incomplete at the centre. The object broadens for a distance of 9mm from this terminal and then narrows, tapering to an edge that is incomplete due to old breaks, where it is 14.8mm in width. It is 23mm in length, and 17.3mm at its widest point. The underside is undecorated. The upper surface is covered with ring and dot motifs arranged in transverse rows, with three motifs in the topmost row at the narrow terminal, then four motifs in the succeeding four rows, and part of a fifth row which is incomplete.
The spatula or spoon fragment is 1.45mm in thickness, and thickens to 2.45mm at its shorter straight edge. In the centre of this edge is a broken area c. 5mm wide to which a stem or handle had most likely been attached. The object weighs 4.9g.
Copper alloy spoons of ninth to tenth century date do not tend to have a dished bowl shape (see examples from Norfolk, NMS-56DA56 and NMS-82CAA4)however insufficient remains to identify this fragment positively as a spoon. Excavated spatulas from the middle saxon site at Brandon, Suffolk (SCC forthcoming EAA report, nos.2323 and 5485) are of similar style, with ring and dot motif. Another possibility is that the object is part of the head of a stylus from which the shaft has been broken off. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Carr, Jane - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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