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Description: | A copper alloy early Medieval probable spoon, dating from AD 700 - 1100. Only part of the bowl survives. It is oval and flat, and is decorated on the front with short diagonal incised lines round the edge, bordered by a faint incised double line inside the diagonal marks. The bowl is flat with the handle which is integral. It is rectangular in section (1.4mm thick) and tapers gradually from the bowl. It is decorated on the front only with eight ring and dot motifs, and possibly had small triangular incisions along the edges, but it is hard to tell if these are intentional or corrosion. The wide part of the handle is about 30mm long, and then it steps inwards to form a narrower and thicker shaft which is oval in section. The end is broken off and missing. The reverse of the object is plain. The artefact has been bent into a curve across the wide part of the handle. The metal has a grey patina, and appears bronze coloured in some areas. The upper end of the handle is more badly corroded.No close parallel has yet been identified, but similar possible spoons on the PAS database include SF-3EEFC5, NMS-9F12E2, NMS-4B3435 and NMS-56DA56, all from southern counties.NMS-4B3435 notes that: Spoons or spoon-like objects, in bone, copper alloy and silver, many with pointed bowls, have been found on a number of Anglo-Saxon sites occupied in the 8th and 9th century, and it is possible that the function of at least some may have been ecclesiastical rather than domestic (Hinton Hamwic 1996, 56). The currency of such utensils may have continued after the 9th century.
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