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Description: | A cast copper-alloy artefact, probably a Roman toilet spoon. Specifically, this is probably a ligula, with a spatulate terminal at one end and a point at the other. The flat, circular terminal is small, having been worn to a diameter of 3.7mm. A distance of 16.4mm from the end of this terminal is an elaborate moulded collar. The collar consists of a pair of circular ridges, 4.7mm in diameter, divided by a groove, and followed by an inverted pear-shaped element, 7.8mm in length, and a further groove and ridge before the shaft begins. The shaft is circular in cross-section and 3.1mm in diameter after this collar. The moulding is paralleled by an object also tentatively identified as a Roman ligula found less than ten miles away in Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire in 1988 (Cadman, G (1989), "Northamptonshire County Council Archaeology Unit: Report for 1988 - Titchmarsh", in South Midlands Archaeology, 19 (CBA South Midlands)), pp. 40-41, fig. 16). The object is slightly pitted and is bent.
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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