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Description: | Iron spoon auger. Spoon coming to a blunt point. Shaft has a sub-rectangular cross-section, lanceolate bit. Biddle lists a number of spoon augers in 'Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester' (1990)(p.2726, figs. 1335, 1337) but these differ slightly to this example in that the sides of the bit are either straight or slightly concave. Closer parallels are listed in Manning's 'Catalogue of the Iron Tools, Fittings and Weapons in the British Museum' (1985), (Nos. B55 & B56, Pl. 12)Iron tools such as these have changed little over the centuries and are difficult to date without a secure context.
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