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Description: | Lead alloy spoon fragment. Cast terminal from a spoon, of expanded downturned form, and stamped with the letters O / W D in seriffed Roman capitals on its underside. The outer edges are chipped. The lettering may refer to an owner, or, more likely, to government property issued to a soldier: W D standing for the War Department (known as such 1795-1815, though the title was later revived), and the O possibly standing for Ordnance, or artillery. The down-turned terminal to a spoon would indicate a date after c.1760, so the balance of probability is that this object was issued during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, possibly in the earlier part of that period. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1795-1815.Length: 37mm, Width: 18.6mm, Thickness: 2.9mm, Weight: 8.61gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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