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Description: | A cast copper alloy incomplete spoon. The spoon bowl remains and this is a sub-drop shape in plan. It is concave on the upper surface and convex on the reverse. The upper edge is broken, and this break is not recent. The reverse of the bowl, near this break, has a central triangular sectioned linear moulding. The upper surface of the bowl has traces of a white alloy coating, the reverse has an incomplete brown coloured patina. The spoon measures 37.46mm long from the upper edge of the bowl and the apex of the lower edge of the bowl and it is 25.01mm wide across the fold of the bowl. It weighs 5.5g. Crummy (Crummy, N. 1983 Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-1979 Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd.) illustrates a similar shaped spoon, for example Nos. 2018 and 2019, and categorises it as being a Type 3 'Spoon with Mandolin Shaped Bowl'. These types of spoon were manufactured throughout the Roman period (1983, 69).
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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