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SPOON
Unique ID: SF-D54845
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper-alloy spoon of Post-Medieval date. The bowl and a short length of the stem survive, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. The bowl is oval shaped in form, concave and slightly damaged/cracked on one side. The stem is oval shaped in section and extends onto the underside of the bowl forming a triangular 'rat tail' on the back face. It measures 42.89mm in length, 19.18mm in width at bowl, 5.49mm in thickness at bowl, and weighs 5.13g. This spoon bowl is of Post-Medieval date, the rat tail on the back face of the bowl suggesting a date range in the late 17th to 18th centuries AD (see for example DENO-577BE2 or SUSS-B3F337).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1650
Date to: Circa AD 1750
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 42.89 mm
Width: 19.18 mm
Thickness: 5.49 mm
Weight: 5.13 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2011
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: Grundisburgh
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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