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Description: | Part of a cast copper alloy seal-top spoon of Post-Medieval date, about AD 1525 - 1675. The fragment consists of the knop which is a flat, expanded disc, beneath which is a double collar, a narrow waist, and then an inverted pear-shaped moulding. The remainder of the handle and the bowl of the spoon has broken away and is missing. The artefact has a dark brown patina. It is 32.9mm long, 12.6mm diameter and 8.42g.Homer, in Five Centuries of Base Metal Spoons (1975), categorises this type of spoon as seal top, baluster type.SOM-1E18D6 is a similar example and notes that: "This type of spoon knop was common from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century. Moore (1999, 5) attributes their contemporary popularity to the fact that the owner's and donor's initials could be pricked or engraved onto the disc. Moore (1999, 5) also highlights the fact that such knops were cast separately and then soldered to the handle."SWYOR-D9F4EA and LVPL-B66F41 are also parallels.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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