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Description: | A round Roman spoon bowl with the stem missing due to an old break, this is copper-alloy with a white metal coating. The bowl measures 22mm in diameter and the inner face has soil adhereing to it. The outer face has a central tapering protrusion which flares into a tiny stub of the actual stem, this has a circular cross-section and measures c3mm in diameter. This protrusion is decorated with small opposing diagonal grooves. Either side of it the bowl itself is also decorated with curvilinear lines of tiny circular indentations. There us a rectangular hole through one side of the bowl, this hole appears to have been punched through the bowl and not part of its original design, it may be later damage of some kind, although it does not look particularly recent as the edges are worn.
Roman round spoon bowls have been found at Colchester and are classified as type 1 by Crummy who dates them to the second half of the 1st century and the 2nd centry AD. The Colchester example is copper-alloy with a white metal coating (Crummy 1983, 69-70 fig 73, no 2008).
This example has been examined by David Slenlock and fits into his Group C typology of the backs of Roman spoons, this group is elaborate and their characteristic is petal designs in dots and chevron designs on the rat-tails, it is most similar to type C4 (Senlock pers comm 10/2005, and Britannia XXX1 2000 'The backs of Roman Spoons'). | 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: | 43
300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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