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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy spoon of Roman date. It is missing the handle and half of the bowl due to old breaks and has a worn and corroded mid green patina. The bowl is pear shaped with a U-shaped profile, the tip/outer edge of the bowl missing due to old breaks. At the handle end it tapers towards a point where it joins the surviving fragment of the handle. This is rectangular in section but its precise form is uncertain due to old breaks. The entire object measures 36.44mm in length, 21.79mm in width, 4.60mm in height (at handle end), 1.20mm in thickness at bowl, and weighs 5.43g.This is an incomplete Roman spoon bowl of Crummy's Colchester Type 2 spoons defined by their oval shaped bowls (Crummy, 1983: nos. 2012-2014). It is of 2nd centruy AD or later date.
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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