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SPOON
Unique ID: PUBLIC-85960E
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of a Post Medieval, copper alloy spoon. The fragment consists of a short section of the stem and a section of the curved bowl which is still extending in width at the point of the break so that the bowl shape can not be determined. On the inside of the bowl, near where the handle joins, is a circular makers mark which resembles a five petalled tudor rose. The handle is flat / rectangular in plan and profile being hexagonal in cross section. Where it joins the bowls it extends underneath in an inverted v-shape. The artefact has a grey-green patina and there are faint remains of tinning inside the bowl.
The fragment is 35mm long by 36mm wide, it weighs 6.8 grams.
The bowl is 1.3mm thick.
The stem is is 7.1mm wide and 3.3mm thick.
HAMP-BA5509 has a similar flat hexagonal handle. KENT-AA8C75 has a similar makers mark, and SOM-7C2A26 has a double tudor rose.
There is also an example from a mixed context in London dated by the ceramics to 1650-1700 (Egan G: 2005: Material Culture in the Age of Transition - page 119 fig 110 ref 580). This has a five petalled double rose / tudor rose stamp and a slip-top the stem is octagonal.
Homer (1975 Five centuries of base metal spoons pp 21-22 / 54) notes that the five petalled tudor rose appears on spoons with slip and seal knops which dates the use to the periods 1550-1650
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 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35 mm
Width: 36 mm
Thickness: 3.3 mm
Weight: 6.8 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Gloucestershire (County)
District: Forest of Dean (District)
To be known as: Ruardean
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egan, G. | 2005 | Material Culture in London in an Age Of Transition: Tudor and Stuart period finds c.1450 - c.1700 from excavations at riverside sites in Southwark | London | Museum of London Archaeology Service | page 119, fig 110 | 580 | |
| Homer, R.F. | 1975 | Five Centuries of Base Metal Spoons | London | The Worshipful Company of Pewterers | p21-22/54 |
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