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Description: | A Roman copper alloy spoon fragment (Ad43-410). The bowl is shallow and circular with a blunt projection from the top ("mandolin-shaped"). On the reverse of the bowl there is a small rib extending from the junction with the handle to the top of the bowl. A small section of the bowl is also broken and missing. Only the mandolin-shaped spoon bowl remains, the handle is missing. The breaks have the same pale green patina as the rest of the surface suggesting the damage occurred in antiquity.A similar spoon no. 2018 has been found in Colchester and dated c.AD250-300 (Crummy 1995: 70).Dimensions: length: 36.72mm; thickness: 4.83mm; diameter: 24.12mm; weight: 6.70g.Crummy, N. 1995. The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-1979. Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd, Colchester.
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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