SPOON 917205

Description: An incomplete Roman copper alloy spoon, probably dating to c AD 100-400. The fragment is comprised of the handle, and the 'drop'. The bowl is entirely missing. It is 105.33mm in length, but the handle is now a little bent and would have originally been c 115mm in length, and is 14.53mm in width (the 'drop'). It weighs 9.18g. The handle is sub-rectangular in cross section, tapering from 5.03mm x 2.78mm just below the 'drop' to c 2.78mm x 2.78mm at the end. The 'drop', the juncture between the offset bowl and handle, is elaborated, but incomplete. It's lower edge forming a rounded right-angle whilst the upper has a pair of projections perpendicular to eachother, flanked by sub-semi-circular indentations at the point of inflection. There are traces of a white metal coating surviving in places and there is a decoration on the front of the handle, behind the elaborated juncture of the handle and bowl, consisting of three rectangular panels defined by transverse ridges, each containing a lozenge created by obliquely angled v-shaped grooves. cf. Spoons of similar form excavated in Roman contexts published by Crummy (1983: 70, no. 2014), Bishop (1996: 13, no. 27) and Henig (1993: 125, nos. 72-73).

Date: 100 - 400

Object type: SPOON

Last import: September 22, 2022