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SPOON
Unique ID: HAMP-A18E78
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of a Post-Medieval (1550-1700) copper alloy spoon with a fig-shaped bowl, consisting of less than half of the bowl and a small section of stem only.
The inside of the bowl, below the stem and slightly to one side, has a maker's mark consisting of [-]W//. within a shield-shaped stamp. Only part survives due to inconsistent pressure of the stamp when originally applied. The line of the 'shield' suggests the letter before W is a narrow letter, possible an I. The bowl has a jagged, worn break and is 0.65mm thick.
The stem is faceted and hexagonal in cross-section, with a worn break 5.86x3.74mm. It survives to a length of 13.54mm.
Measures 45.17x34.44mm and weighs 6.12g. The bowl would have originally been c.36mm wide.
Helen Geake (Geake, H. 2001 Finds Recording Guide Version 1.1 p. 76) comments that spoons with maker's marks date to the second half of the 16th and 17th century. Egan (Egan, G. 2005 Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition MoLAS Monograph 19) illustrates similar shaped spoons made from pewter and copper alloy (Nos. 527-585), commenting that the Pewterers' Guild since the 1560s had tried to prevent copper alloy spoons being made, which worked quite well until the late 17th century (p. 117).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 45.17 mm
Width: 34.44 mm
Weight: 6.12 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 10th December 2012 - Tuesday 26th February 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Winchester Museums Entry Form 3579
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Winchester (District)
To be known as: Twyford
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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