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Description: | Roman (1st to 4th century) spoon: The fragmentary copper alloy spoon has a short portion of the stem/handle and the junction with the bowl remaining. The stem/handle is sub rectangular in section, tapering slightly towards the tip and is broken, probably recently. The handle, towards the bowl, becomes taller in profile and more narrow with a transverse ridge as decoration before becoming a 'C' shape, whose lower terminal would have originally developed into the spoon bowl. The side faces of this stem/handle junction are undecorated The surface of the spoon has traces of a white metal alloy with surface pitting showing the copper alloy beneath. The surface has a dark grey surface. It measures 27.78mm long, 13.32mm wide and 13.75mm tall. It weighs 2.6g.The spoon dates to the roman period, AD 43 to 410. The shape of the bowl would help narrow the date, but in this case it is missing.
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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