Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: CORN-1C9334
Object type certainty: Certain
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Cast copper alloy Roman oval spoon bowl, missing its stem. The stem has broken off cleanly with no evidence as to any moulding or other detail of attachment. The bowl is well-patinated and largely complete except for wear around the edge. The bowl is 4 mm deep and the metal is 1 - 1.5 mm thick.
Similar examples found in Cornwall with defined oval or ovate bowls are recorded in CORN-1BE7B3, and CORN-C3F239. Two further spoon bowls recorded in WILT-0235AA and WILT-F838D8, with a similar plan and patina, have been dated broadly to the Roman period.
Crummy (1993) illustrates a copper alloy spoon bowl excavated from Roman contexts at Colchester with similar proportions but a more pear-shaped bowl on page 70, fig.73, no.2012, that appears to have been in production by the first half of the 2nd century.
Notes:
Found in the vicinity of another spoon bowl recorded in CORN-1BE7B3.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 400
Quantity: 1
Length: 31 mm
Width: 18.5 mm
Thickness: 1.5 mm
Weight: 2.7 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 6th February 2017 - Monday 6th February 2017
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SW4030
Four figure Latitude: 50.11302066
Four figure longitude: -5.63808901
1:25K map: SW4030
1:10K map: SW40SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Crummy, N. | 1983 | Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester, 1971-9 | Colchester | Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd | 70, fig.73 | no.2012 |