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SPOON
Unique ID: NMGW-726CCD
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Post medieval copper alloy and silver spoon terminal of 18th century date
The spoon was of 'apostle' form and is fragmentary (with a surviving length of 34.8mm and a weight of 5.8g) and comprises a copper alloy terminal surmounted on a silver handle. The terminal is heavily-corroded and appears to depict a standing figure (25.5mm long,9.0mm wide and 5.4mm thick) seemingly cloaked and with the right arm bent to the chest and may possibly have depicted the Virgin with Child. The figure is standing on a circular pedestal at the base (7.9mm diameter). The silver spoon handle is circular-sectioned and expands to a moulding below the terminal (6.2mm diameter), below which the sub-circular sectioned handle is broken (with a diameter of 3.2mm x 2.5mm). The copper alloy has a pale-brown patina and elsewhere has a pale-green corrosion.
Class: spoon terminal
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 34.8 mm
Weight: 5.8 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NMWPA 2013.137.4
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Silver
Decoration style: Figurative
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Wales (European Region)County or Unitary authority: the Vale of Glamorgan (Unitary Authority)
District: the Vale of Glamorgan (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Llan-Maes (Community)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SS9770
Four figure Latitude: 51.41962442
Four figure longitude: -3.48265571
1:25K map: SS9770
1:10K map: SS97SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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