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Description: | A probable toilet spoon of Roman date. A strip of copper alloy which flares along its length, and has a wider terminal at the narrow end. Bother ends are old breaks. The strip is buckled and twisted in the middle, but this is post depositional damage. This was originally thought to be one arm from a pair of tweezers, but this seemed less likely when the rounded wider terminal at the narrower end of the strip was considered. This could be part of the loop joining two arms of tweezers, but none which have a loop wider than the top of the arms have been found. Instead, it is suggested that this could be a toilet spoon with a spatulate end at the wide end, and a small round spoon at the other. Two parallels have been found on the database, though both have a twisted stem: HAMP-804352 and IOW-8E5564. They are also longer than this example. Another parallel is number 1900 in Crummy (1983) which is a toilet spoon with a perforation in the flared end. This example could have broken before the perfortation. There is no decoration.
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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