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SPOON
Unique ID: KENT-4118FB
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
An incomplete copper alloy Roman (AD 43-410) mandolin-shaped spoon bowl the handle is missing.
Description: The spoon would have originally consisted of two pieces. The bowl is mandolin- shaped, narrowing into a neck, then widening again to where the handle would have attached. The top edge of this has two rounded projections between which is a triangular wedge on the rear surface. The spoon and the neck are shallowly concave rising to the flattened rim. The bowl is a shallow D shape in cross section. Across the surface of the spoon on both sides are traces of white metal coating. The spoon is a dark green brown colour.
Measurements: length: 42.21mm, width: 24.90mm, thickness: 1.1mm, weight: 4.40g.
A similar mandolin bowl spoon is illustrated in Crummy (1983, page 70, Figure 73) number 2018.
Class:
Mandolin-shaped bowl
Sub class: Crummy 1983, type 3
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 42.21 mm
Width: 24.9 mm
Thickness: 1.1 mm
Weight: 4.4 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: White metal
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Thanet (District)
Parish or ward: Manston (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR3567
Four figure Latitude: 51.35344646
Four figure longitude: 1.37367498
1:25K map: TR3567
1:10K map: TR36NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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