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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman spoon, probably dating to the 1st/ 2nd century AD (length: 29mm; diameter: 21.5mm; thickness at stem terminal: 3mm; weight: 2.3g). This spoon has been classified as a Class 1 by Nina Crummy in her 1983 publication ?Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-9?. The spoon bowl is round in plan, dished in profile and flat in section (thickness of bowl: 0.8mm) with the stumped remains of the integrally cast copper alloy stem (length of stem: 6mm) to one end along the outside edge. The stem appears to be circular in section and would have originally continues for a considerable length when complete. There is no decoration on this spoon and it is in a worn but fair condition (there is some surface pitting on the underside of the artefact). Similar spoons are illustrated in Crummy?s publication where they have been dated to the 1st/ 2nd century AD (see pages 69-70, fig 73). It is suggested that these spoons were perhaps used to eat eggs. | 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
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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