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Description: | Probable seal-top knop from a spoon handle. It has the characteristic flat circular top, 13 mm in diameter, and below this a series of mouldings. First is a rounded moulding with widely spaced vertical grooves; then a smaller, more angled moulding; then a long circular-section waist; then a large inverted cone, again with widely spaced vertical grooves. At the bottom is a simple collar and then a hexagonal-section collar. Below the mouldings is a tapering spike. It is this spike which calls into question the identification as a seal-top knop from a spoon, as here one would expect the start of the stem of the handle. The spike does not appear to be the result of accidental breakage, but rather a deliberate sharpening. Perhaps a broken spoon was cut down into this shape but, if so, why? Seal-top knops date from the mid 16th to the mid 17th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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