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Description: | Copper-alloy handle, decorated with a human face. The top of the handle has a rounded terminal which curves backwards slightly at its top. It tapers with gentle concave sides which end in a ridge which runs right round both front and back, above a bi-conical moulding. The handle is then broken. The front is decorated with incised lines forming a human face. The hair is made up of a horizontal line with oblique short lines below; the eyes are each formed by a pair of curving lines with a short horizontal line in between; the nose is two short parallel horizontal lines; and the beard is a V shape with three oblique lines to either side and a pair of vertical parallel lines beneath the nose. There are two curving lines and a crossed I beneath the face, probably merely space-fillers. There are two close parallels on the PAS database, from Hertfordshire and Essex; ESS-EBD493 and ESS-6C21B2, both identified as 17th- or 18th-century spoon handles.
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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