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Description: | Terminal of a cignus type Roman spoon in the form of a bird's head; the rest of the handle and the spoon bowl are missing. The head is long and narrow, with a flaring, round-ended beak. A groove around this forms the mouth, and has small jagged notches forming teeth. There is a humped brow over the eyes, and between the vertical wall of this and the horizontal beak is a ridged moulding. There is an eye to either side of the brow; on one side this consists of a circular groove with an S-shaped eyebrow above, but on the other side the eye is made from the curled end of the eyebrow. The width of the head has continued to taper, and now is just 2.6mm wide; here a circular-section neck turns at right angles to the head, and is broken (worn break). The underside of the head is flat and undecorated. The grooves are currently filled with soil but may once have contained niello inlay.Dimensions: length 20.46 mm, maximum width 4.16 mm, maximum thickness of head 5.42mm, total thickness including neck stub c. 8mm. Weight 2.17g.Discussion: the fragment of spoon comes from a type known as the cignus, a spoon with an oval bowl and a curved handle which ends in a bird's head form. The best comparisons come from the Hoxne treasure, for instance BM BEP 1994,0408.85 (Johns 2010, p. 228). There is also the possibility that the fragment should be considered as Hacksilber, i.e. deliberately cut from the original object to create a small piece of bullion.
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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