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SPOON
Unique ID: ESS-127B35
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
A probable Roman spoon handle fragment, lacking its moulded finial and spoon bowl. What survives is a stem in the form of an elongated baluster with reel-and-disc moulding and the broken stub of the rectangular-sectioned offset that joined it to the now missing, probably oval, bowl.
For the likely original form see Peter Brown (ed.) British cutlery (York Civic Trust, Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 2001), 59, Pl. 10e.
Notes:
Treasure report from Ralph Jackson:
Date: Probably 3rd - 4th century AD
In terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% silver it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Saffron Walden Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Acquired by museum after being declared Treasure
Treasure details
Treasure case tracking number: 2006T227
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 49.4 mm
Weight: 4.4 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 19th April 2006
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Treasure case number: 2006T227
Materials and construction
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