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Description: | An incomplete cast lead alloy (pewter) spoon dating to the late 17th - early 18th century. The fragment comprises part of the bowl and the beginning of the attached handle, the rest has been lost to old breaks. The remaining section of the bowl is round or oval in plan with the edges now bent in. The bowl is unusually thick with a thickened rim and may be mis-cast. On the back of the spoon bowl, there is a raised moulded line tapering in width from the handle fragment ending in a point some way into the bowl, this is known as a rat-tail junction. There is also a rounded thickening on the front of the bowl. The remaining section of the handle is roughly hexagonal although worn, dented and bent. The spoon fragment is 48.8mm long, 31.9mm wide and 11.2mm thick; it weighs 25.45 grams.The rat-tail junction between the handle and bowl developed after AD 1675 and was superseded around AD 1715 although examples continue into the mid 18th century (Moore 1987:14, 24). The form of the handle also suggests the earlier period.
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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