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Description: | The spoon stem is made from cast copper alloy. The terminal is decorated with a moulded knop which is known as a ?Baluster? type of spoon knop (Geake, H. 2001 Finds Recording Guide Version 1.1), It has a flat circular disc as the terminal, from which beneath is an integral narrowed, circular sectioned element, which has two swellings before terminating with an integral collar. The knop is sub-circular in section throughout its length. Protruding from the collar is the integral stem. The stem is oval in section, and is undecorated. It terminates with a break, but this is not recent. Fine detail has been lost as the surface is corroded and much of the original surface and patina are missing. The object is mainly covered with red copper corrosion. The object measures 52.65mm long and 11.84mm in diameter across the upper terminal. It weighs 10.28g.
The object is a spoon knop probably dating to the late Medieval to the early Post Medieval period, (Geake, H. 2001 Finds Recording Guide Version 1.1). Egan (2005 Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition Museum of London and English Heritage) illustrates similar decorated spoon knops which are made of pewter. No. 570 is the most closely decorated knop, and this dates to the 17th to mid 18th century. | 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: | 1400
1750 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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