Record ID: DOR-E76C14
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy spoon handle. The terminal only of a spoon stem is present and dates to the late Post Medieval period c. 1670 - 1720. It is flat and rectangular in section with a widened three-lobed trefid terminal. The object has a green/brown patina. Date: Post Medieval Length: 21.60 mm Width: 24.06mm Thickness: 1.26mm Weight: 2.89g Similar examples can also be seen at: DOR-DB66B8 & BERK-705DFE
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Sunday 11th February 2024
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Record ID: DOR-21BFA7
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy seal top spoon. The top is a flat disc, below which the handle is narrowed and than expands into a baluster form comprising (with constrictions between) an upper, globular knop with vertical groove decoration, a narrow collar,  a narrowed tapering knop and a collar. The handle then continues with an oval cross section to the break point, narrowed from the decorative section. Date: Post medieval - 16th to early 17th century Dimensions: 29.74 mm  x 11.86 mm Weight: 8.33 g
Created on: Monday 15th May 2023
Last updated: Saturday 3rd February 2024
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Record ID: DOR-B5E7F5
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy trifid spoon handle terminal, probably dating to c. AD 1650-1720. The spoon handle is slightly bent and plain, terminating in a worn break at one end and flaring outwards into a tri-lobed trifid terminal at the other. Reference: Egan (2005: 118, no. 578) publishes an unstratified trifid spoon featuring counterfeit hallmarks dating the spoon to the mid-17th century at the earliest. Homer (1975: 43) suggests that this style of spoon first appeared soon after 1660 and went out of fashion by c. 1700. cf. GLO-BD726C on this database Date: Post medieval Dimensions: 48.4…
Created on: Monday 23rd May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 21st June 2022
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Record ID: DOR-DB66B8
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy spoon fragment. The trefid end of the handle only. The shaft of the handle is flat and rectangular in cross section, with slightly rounded short sides. The end of the handle flares out and terminates in a trefid end comprising a larger central lobe with a squared end, flanked by two smaller, more rounded lobes. It is undecorated. There is a large lump of iron corrosion adhering to one face. There are traces of a black coating on all surfaces. Date: Post Medieval - 1625 - 1685 Dimensions: 51.20 mm x 21.60 mm x 2.33 Weight: 10.33 g Similar to DOR-FC6851
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Last updated: Saturday 23rd April 2022
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Record ID: DOR-DA4BA6
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy (latten) seal top spoon. The fragment comprises the spoon knop only. The terminus is a flat oval disc which tapers down to two adjacent collars, the second being slightly narrower than the first. From the second collar, the knop then tapers gradually before expanding to a baluster which narrows before meeting another collar before the break . The disc, collars and baluster are all sub-circular in cross-section. There is no evidence of initials on the disc. The surfaces are heavily corroded. Reference: Homer R F, 1975 Five Centuries of Base Metal Spoons,…
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Last updated: Saturday 23rd April 2022
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Record ID: DOR-BDC3B7
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy spoon with white metal coating. Only the bowl of the spoon remains. It is a "mandolin-shaped" - rounded at the base and tapering into a long neck. At the top of the neck is a transverse ridge. At the rear of the neck is a tapering mid-rib which originally extended into an off-set hook attaching the bowl to the missing stem. There are traces of white metal coating. Reference: Crummy N 1983, Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-9, pages 69 - 70, figure. 73, No. 2019 Date: Roman c. AD 43 - 410 Dimensions: 40.97 mm 23.18 mm x 3.88 mm …
Created on: Thursday 6th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 6th February 2020
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Record ID: DOR-AB1D15
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy spoon. The surface is silvered. The spoon bowl is missing. The stem is in two pieces with a modern break. It is rectangular in cross section and widens and thickens towards the hook where the bowl was attached. It is decorated on the upper surface at the hooked end with four groups of two incised diagonal grooves, alternating in angle and separated by semi- circular depressions at the edges of the. The bowl was offset from the handle and attached to the narrowed curving hook which has a flat rectangular cross section. Date: Roman-c. AD 100 - 400 Dimensi…
Created on: Wednesday 5th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 5th February 2020
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Record ID: DOR-0361E6
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The bowl of a probably off-set spoon dating to the Roman period. A elongated drop-shaped bowl and stub of probable off-set handle remain. On the rear of the bowl is tapering ridge extending part way along the bowl on the central longitudinal axis. The bowl is gently concave. Date: Roman: AD 100- 400 Dimensions: 37.05 mm x 21.48 mm x 5.24 mm Weight: 6.08 g
Created on: Tuesday 30th July 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2022
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Record ID: DOR-088A48
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete white metal coated copper alloy spoon. The stem is circular in cross section and tapers away from the bowl to a break. At the bowl end the handle expands into a rectangular off-set joined to the bowl. The bowl is circular and dished.There are patchy remnants of a white metal coating inside and at the rear of the bowl. Date: Roman - c. AD 100 - 200 Dimensions: 97.55 mm x 21.43 mm x 6.33 mm Weight: 6.50 g
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Friday 21st August 2020
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Record ID: DOR-5532BD
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The stem only of an off-set spoon. The stem varies in cross section along its length from oval at the terminal to sub-angular at the point where the missing bowl would have begun. The looped terminal is slightly expanded and is decorated with two sets of two ridges at top and bottom. The loop is rounded with a large circular aperture and is narrowed from the stem. At the other end the stem expands to the break where there is a remnant of a curved projection where the off-set bowl would have attached.The stem is bent. Date: Roman - c. AD 50 - 410 Dimensions: 102.71 mm x 6.90 mm x 5.12 …
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2018
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Record ID: DOR-D665B8
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of off-set spoon dating to the Roman period. Part of the fig-shaped bowl, the curved off-set and the stub of the handle remain. The handle is rectangular in cross section. The off set continues as a slight ridge at the rear of the bowl. The bowl is gently concave. There are traces of white metal coating on the surfaces. Reference: Read. B, 2016, pg.100, no.704. Date: Roman c. AD 100 - 400 Dimensions: 27.21mm x 15.46mm x 7.09mm. Weight: 2.42g.
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th November 2018
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Record ID: DOR-D64BFD
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy off-set spoon. The stem is circular in cross section with a plain terminal (rat-tail) beyond which it is a 'twisted rod style. The stem is tapered from the bowl to the terminal. The fragment of the bowl is attached by a curving, hook-like, C-shaped off-set which has a rectangular cross section. The small fragment of the bowl is rounded on the upper edge, and concave. Date: Late Roman c. 350 - 400 Dimensions: 116.4mm x 18.53mm x 3.47mm Weight: 8.53g Similar to database record WMID-F70F42 and to silver examples in the Hoxne Hoard of coins and metalwork bur…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th March 2018
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Record ID: SOM-DD4914
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Post-Medieval copper alloy spoon, probably dating to c. AD 1550-1700. The fragment comprises of the upper half of the bowl, probably originally piriform, but now truncated by a worn break, and with a trapzoidal indentation at the top from the lost handle. Positioned near centrally below the handle is a maker's mark, depicting a five-petalled double-rose within an inner circle. Dimensions: 35.8mm; 44.4 1.7mm; weight 11.05g. A brass spoon with a similar maker's mark is published by Egan (2005: 119, no. 580), excavated from a context dating to c. 1650-1700. A simila…
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2018
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Record ID: SF-F4785C
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy fragment of an early Post-Medieval spoon, dating c. 1550-1650. Only the base of the handle and the upper section of the bowl survive, with the rest of the object broken away in old damage. The bowl itself would probably have been originally fig shaped, while the handle is sub-oval in section, though the form of its terminal remains unknown due to breakage. A stamped maker's mark consisting a fleur de lys is visible on the upper edge of the bowl as it curves upwards and tapers towards its junction with the handle, which is typically associated with slip…
Created on: Thursday 13th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 3rd November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Crawford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-4FAD3A
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Medieval to Post-Medieval slip top spoon. The bowl is 'fig' shaped. On the inside of the bowl below the handle is an illegible stamped initial. The stem has a hexagonal cross-section with a chamfered terminal. Date:Post Medieval - c. 1500 - 1700 Dimensions: Weight: The slip top spoons were in use from the 15th century until the second half of the 17th century. A similar example is recorded in Egan, G, Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition, page 119, no. 580 Another similar spoon is recorded in database record SOM-E37823
Created on: Sunday 24th July 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stalbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-19D405
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-Medieval copper-alloy 'seal top' knop spoon or 'baluster seal' type spoon handle. ( c.1550-1650) Geake 2001:76. The terminal has a flat plain top with a waist, a decorated baluster below and then a collar. The stem is rectangular in cross-section, with rounded edges. Dimensions are: Length: 41.9 mm. Width: 4.15 mm. Seal top Diameter 11.9 mm. Weight:7.508 grams. The object has a pale green to brown patina. This type of spoon knop was common from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century. Moore (1999,5) attributes theirr contemporary popularity to the fact that the owne…
Created on: Tuesday 10th November 2015
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr Wimborne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E25089
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval copper-alloy latten spoon knop dating to the period c. AD 1500 - 1700. The knop is of the seal top type with a flat top c.14.0mm in diameter. Below the top is a constriction, below whch the spoon widens into a conical collar which tapers into a narrow collar. Below this, the spoon tapers further before expanding into a collar and termionates in an old break. Similar examples are illustrated by Homer (1975:38) who categorises them as Seal Top types B , fluted or scrolled baluster seals, depending on their decoration. He dates both types to the 16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 14th October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Glanvilles Wootton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-213D32
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete latten spoon. A partial fig-shaped bowl and incomplete handle. The handle has an oval profile changing to a faceted irregular hexagonal profile nearer the bowl. There is a rose touch mark on the inside of the bowl. It is not possible to be certain of the style of the missing terminal, but the bowl and mark date to the 16th to mid 17th centuries. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1500 - 1650 Dimensions: 120.80 mm x 47.34 mm x 1.40 mm Weight: 24.79 g
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 18th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mappowder', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-D0F545
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy spoon, dating from the Roman period. The stem is of rectangular section, tapering towards a pointed distal end and having an upward bend just over halfway along. A short distance from the bowl end, the sides of the stem bulge outwards; at this point the two upper corners have been 'toothed' by a number of transverse incisions. A 'U-shaped' downward step joins the stem to the remaining fragment of the bowl. The surfaces of the spoon have been tinned or silvered. Dimensions: length: 102.2mm; width: 4mm; height at step: 11.2mm. Weight: 8.28g.
Created on: Monday 22nd July 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterbourne St. Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-F6DD94
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy seal top spoon. The top is a flat disc, below which the handle is narrowed and than expands into a baluster form comprising (with constrictions between) an upper, globular knop, a narrowed tapering knop, a wider tapering knop and two collars. The handle then continues with an oval cross section to the break point, narrowed from the decorative section. Date: Post medieval - 16th to early 17th century Dimensions: 33.56mm x 12.27 mm x 10.68 mm Weight: 6.31 g
Created on: Friday 24th May 2013
Last updated: Friday 14th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Iwerne Minster', grid reference and parish protected.