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Description: | Possibly a cast baluster seal knop from a copper-alloy ('latten') spoon handle. There is just a stub of the stem of the handle surviving which tapers to a pointed end. The knop begins with a circular collar, and then the baluster part flares out to a diameter of 6.2mm. Above the baluster is a further collar. The knop then flares out into a circular section of diameter 8.6mm. There is a constriction above this decorated with regular longitudinal incisions before the seal top itself. The seal top is sub-circular, 11.8mm in diameter, and flat on the upper side. This type of spoon knop was common from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century. Moore (1999, 5) attributes their contemporary popularity to the fact that the owner?s and donor?s initials could be pricked or engraved onto the disc. On this example corrosion renders any potential initials impossible to discern. Moore (1999, 5) also highlights the fact that such knops were cast separately and then soldered to the handle; this perhaps explains the nature of this fragmentary survival. Similar spoon knops can be cross-referenced on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database, for example records SF7598 and NARC-A13613. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1550
1650 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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