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Description: | An incomplete silver-gilt artefact that is probably the terminal from a spoon of Post-Medieval date, (c. AD 1500-1700). The incomplete handle of the spoon has a square cross section with chamfered corners measuring 3.4mm x 3.4mm. The broken end of the shaft seems to have been bent and tapers to the irregular break as thought it had pinched or broken off with a sort of chewing twisting action (possibly with a tool such as pliers rather than with human or animal teeth). At the complete end of the shaft, the shaft tapers slightly to 2.5mm x 2.7mm before expanding again to form the decorative and gilt terminal. The terminal has a square plinth measuring 3.4mm x 3.1mm, then pinches in to 2.9mm x 2.8mm before expanding again to form the main feature of the terminal a rectangle measuring 4.6mm x 4.7mm with a length of 5.5mm. A lateral central groove is present on each of the four surfaces of the terminal to the top of this rectangular zone. Above the rectangular zone the terminal again constricts to a diameter of 2.9mm taking on a circular cross-sectionfor the pinnacle terminal. The pinnacle is a spherical knop with pimple at the top. The knop has a diameter of 3.3mm with a length of 2.3mm and the pimple has a diameter of 1.1mm and length of 1.1mm. The terminal has a total length of 13.6mm. This incomplete spoon handle weighs 3.86g and has a total incomplete bent length of 42.0mm.See PAS record HAMP-6745F2. It is possible that this style of terminal might have developed from the acorn terminals when compared to the pinnacle terminal on this spoon handle, see PAS record DUR-FD2667 and FAKL-3FEA22.Consequently, in terms of age and precious metal content, the object qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
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