2024-03-29T02:32:18+00:00https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/jsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/xmlhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/rsshttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/atomhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/kmlhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/geojsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/qrcodehttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results9120Somerset100County1Metal detectorSOM-91C874.jpg1057842013From a paper map1102151PMWhite metal coatedDistrictCertain4SOM104951670Restricted Accessx410472635221439.79South Somerset106272013-07-17T15:14:12ZReturned to finderSouth WestCirca
A post-medieval cast copper-alloy (latten) spoon, surviving complete. The bowl is oval generally rounded, but slightly more steeply at the stem end. There is a maker's mark of a 'I R (with spoon)', on the front of the bowl near the stem. There are pellets above and below each letter. The stem is flat and connected straight to the edge of the bowl with no strengthening tail on the back. The stem terminates in an integral fluted baluster seal top, somewhat distorted; the seal top seems plain. There are extensive traces of a white metal coating on the bowl's internal surface. The bowl is 63.0mm long, 52.9mm wide and 13.6mm deep.
The bowl shape is, naturally, consistent with seal top spoon in latten dated c. 1640 by Homer (1975, 46; ref. b). Similarly the fluted baluster seal top is a 17th-century feature (ibid., 38; ref. f). The seal top has a long floruit from c. 1550; this piece sits comfortably towards its end, c. 1630-1670 AD. This mid 17th-century date is re-enforced by the maker's mark of 'I R (with spoon)', documented in Butler (2001, 49; ref. 92) with a slightly different rendering on a very similar overall spoon form.
Robert Webley176.97Haselbury Plucknett CPSOM-69CED355911041SCC receipt 22461SPOONRestricted Accessfinds-5591101152.96SOM-91C874Complete1630images/rwebley2/I R1433694PAS51891C8700182642013-05-07T16:23:51ZCertainx410472013-04-19T23:00:00ZPOST MEDIEVALCopper alloy41427PM1Circa36http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/POST MEDIEVALCertainCivil Parish2022-07-14T07:11:14.334ZSomerset100County13.41Metal detectorSOM-616413.jpg1057842013From a paper mapCorroded1102151PMWhite metal coated1.2DistrictCertain1SOM104951680Restricted Accessx410472635221424.69South Somerset106272013-07-17T15:14:29ZReturned to finderSouth WestCirca
A post-medieval cast copper-alloy (latten) spoon bowl, detached from the stem following old damage. The bowl is sub-oval with a wider, more squared off end near the stem (the shoulders) and fairly straight sides. There is a maker's mark of I spoon R?, punched on the front of the bowl near the stem. This latter has been broken at its junction with the bowl. There are extensive traces of a white metal coating on the bowl's interior.
The bowl shape is consistent with a latten trifid spoon in latten dated c. 1680 by Homer (1975, 46; ref. f), thought it is similar to the slightly earlier puritan form. Though unclear on this piece, a maker's mark of 'I R (with spoon)', is documented in Butler (2001, 49; ref. 92) with a slightly different rendering on a mid-17th century seal top spoon.
Robert Webley667Haselbury Plucknett CPSOM-616F6356248041SCC receipt 22461SPOONRestricted Accessfinds-5624801147.96SOM-616413Fragment1650images/rwebley2/1428046PAS51A616410015A942013-05-29T15:52:49ZCertainx410472013-04-19T23:00:00Z4POST MEDIEVALCopper alloy41427PM1Circa36http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/POST MEDIEVALCertainCivil Parish2022-07-14T07:11:16.155ZSomerset100County1Metal detectorSOM-B3C9D3.jpg105782013From a paper map101037312013T378MD3.3DistrictCertain2SOM103701500Restricted Accessx142212635223510.14Taunton Deane117282013-12-09T10:54:55ZReturned to finder after being disclaimed as TreasureSouth WestCirca
Treasure case 2013 T378: Disclaimed and returned to finder
A c. 15th century medieval silver spoon. The handle is formed from a hexagonal cross-sectioned stem that terminates in a faceted cone at one end and is broken at the point it begins to flare into the spoon bowl at the other. The bowl is almost entirely missing. The terminal is formed from a six-sided cone, the sides flattened slightly at their base, set above a narrow neck with a raised collar at its base. This style of terminal is referred to as a 'diamond point'. The handle has been bent very slightly in profile. The object has a dull grey appearance with some lighter areas. The break, also tarnished, appears old.
This style of terminal does not come into fashion until the 15th century. A similar example can be found illustrated in Ward Perkins (1940, Plate XXVII; no. 5), with similar spoons having been through the Treasure process, for example 2005 T461.
Consequently, in terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Robert Webley192.722North CurrySOM-BD9D1656494112013 T378SPOONRestricted Accessfinds-564941119.86SOM-B3C9D3Incomplete1400images/rwebley2/1432434PAS51BB3C9D0016B642013-06-14T16:54:07ZCertainx142212013-06-07T23:00:00Z2013-06-08T23:00:00ZMEDIEVALSilver41427MD1Circa29http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/MEDIEVALCertainCivil Parish2022-07-14T07:11:17.884ZSomerset100County13.4POST MEDIEVAL1Metal detectorSOM-50DA73.jpg105784From a paper mapCorroded1102121PM
Unlike goldsmiths (who worked in silver and gold), little is known about the marks of spoonmakers who worked in pewter and brass and it is not possible to identify the maker's mark on this example.
White metal coatedDistrictCertain2SOM104951650Restricted Accessx410472635221525.77South Somerset106272013-08-09T16:45:21ZReturned to finderSouth WestCirca
A post-medieval copper-alloy (latten) spoon, incomplete having lost its knop to old damage. The bowl is oval, generally rounded, but slightly more steeply at the stem end. There is a maker's mark of a fleur-de-lis stamped on the front of the bowl near the stem. The stem is flat and connected straight to the edge of the bowl with no strengthening tail on the back. It is rectangular with rounded corners in cross-section. The bowl is 64.5mm long, 46.3mm wide and 13.4mm max. deep.
The bowl shape is consistent with seal top spoons which have a long floruit from c. 1550 onwards. Furthermore, fleur-de-lis makers' marks have been noted on latten seal top and slip top spoons (Homer 1975, 54). As such a wide 16th to 17th-century date can only be offered for this spoon. The metal has corroded to a red-brown colour with an internal white metal coating and patches of green corrosion product on the lower surface.
Robert Webley125.67Misterton CPSOM-50DC8057244841SCC receipt 21984POST MEDIEVALSPOONRestricted Accessfinds-5724481146.36SOM-50DA73Incomplete1550x41047images/rwebley2/1436078PAS52050DA700162542013-08-09T16:41:27ZCertainx41047362013-05-21T23:00:00Z4POST MEDIEVALCopper alloy41427PM1Circa36http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/POST MEDIEVALCertainCivil Parish2022-07-14T07:11:21.891ZSomerset1CountyCast1Metal detectorSOM-26DC18.jpg105782013GPS (from the finder)1106381PMDistrictCertain1SOM1057515.91650Restricted Accessx41047263522429.6Sedgemoor106272013-11-04T14:10:42ZReturned to finderSouth WestCirca
A copper-alloy spoon handle terminal of the baluster knop type. The terminal starts with a small circular knop with collar in the centre of a biconvex disc. Below the disk the terminal narrows, then expands slighty to an oval knop with median incised line. Below is a waist at around the centre of the knop before the object flares to a larger oval knop. Below this the terminal narrows with two final collars and then the narrow handle. The handle has broken just after the narrowing and has been lost. The break is old and corroded; the piece is generally corroded, with red/brown metal where it survives.
Spoon knops of this type are illustrated in Homer (1975, 28), which he dates from the mid 16th to mid 17th century.
Robert Webley32.97Otterhampton CPSOM-26E037583648knop1SCC receipt 22344SPOONRestricted Accessfinds-5836481110SOM-26DC18Fragment1550images/rwebley2/1444742PAS52726DC1001F3242013-10-31T14:48:33ZCertainx4104712013-04-30T23:00:00Z2013-07-30T23:00:00ZPOST MEDIEVALCopper alloy41427PM1Circa36http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/POST MEDIEVALCertainCivil Parish2022-07-14T07:11:27.698ZSomerset1CountyCast1Metal detectorSOM-7ACDE2.jpg105782013GPS (from the finder)Corroded1106381PMDistrictCertain1SOM1057512.61650Restricted Accessx41047263522427.27Sedgemoor106272013-11-04T14:45:42ZReturned to finderSouth WestCirca
A copper-alloy ('latten') spoon handle terminal of the baluster seal knop type. There is just a stub of the stem of the handle surviving: enough to show that its cross-section was sub-circular with a diameter of c. 3.4mm. The knop begins with a double circular collar; the baluster part then flares out to a diameter of 8.2mm. Above the baluster are a further pair of collars. The knop then flares out into a sub-circular seal top, c. 12.6mm in diameter and flat on the upper side.
This type of spoon knop was common from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century. Moore (1999, 5) attributes their contemporary popularity to the fact that the owner's and donor's initials could be pricked or engraved onto the disc. On this example corrosion renders any potential initials impossible to discern. Moore (1999, 5) also highlights the fact that such knops were cast separately and then soldered to the handle; this perhaps explains the nature of this fragmentary survival. The object is now corroded and slightly bent.
Robert Webley37.77Otterhampton CPSOM-7AD1D0584062baluster1SCC receipt 22344SPOONRestricted Accessfinds-5840621110SOM-7ACDE2Fragment1550images/rwebley2/1444744PAS5277ACDE00138A42013-11-04T14:19:10ZCertainx4104712013-04-30T23:00:00Z2013-07-30T23:00:00Z4POST MEDIEVALCopper alloy41427PM1Circa36http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/POST MEDIEVALCertainCivil Parish2022-07-14T07:11:27.933ZSomerset100CountyCast5.41Metal detectorSOM-B42C01.jpg10578Generated from computer mapping software1102121PMDistrictCertain1SOM104951750Restricted Accessx41047263522151.75South Somerset106272013-11-19T11:00:51ZReturned to finderSouth WestCirca
A fragment from a cast copper-alloy spoon of post-medieval date. The fragment comprises the top of the bowl and a short length of the handle tapering like a 'rat-tail' on the underside of the bowl. The handle is trapezoidal in cross-section. The break to the top of the bowl is diagonal and old, around the point at which the handle terminates. The fragment is largely grey but with some small patches of light-green corrosion product suggesting a leaded copper alloy.
Robert Webley257Misterton CPSOM-B42DB65870471SCC receipt 22381SPOONRestricted Accessfinds-5870471117.26SOM-B42C01Fragment1650images/rwebley2/1446749PAS528B42C000126F42013-11-19T10:51:44ZCertainx4104712013-08-20T23:00:00ZPOST MEDIEVALCopper alloy41427PM1Circa36http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/POST MEDIEVALCertainCivil Parish2022-07-14T07:11:29.431ZSomerset100CountyCast1Metal detectorSOM-1E18D6.jpg10578Centred on fieldCorroded1106581PM11.6DistrictCertain1SOM103701650Restricted Accessx41047263522258.71Taunton Deane106272013-12-06T14:44:47ZReturned to finderSouth WestCirca
A copper-alloy ('latten') spoon handle terminal of the baluster seal knop type. There is just a stub of the stem of the handle surviving: enough to show that its cross-section was sub-oval with a diameter of c. 5.9mm. The knop begins with a shallow double circular collar; the baluster part then flares out to a width of 9.5mm. The baluster is decorated with longitudinally incised lines. Above the baluster are a further pair of collars, the upper larger and decorated with longitudinally incised lines. The knop then flares out into a sub-oval seal top, 13.8 by 11.6mm, though now abraded, and flat on the upper side.
This type of spoon knop was common from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century. Moore (1999, 5) attributes their contemporary popularity to the fact that the owner's and donor's initials could be pricked or engraved onto the disc. On this example nothing can be discerned and it was conceivably always plain. Moore (1999, 5) also highlights the fact that such knops were cast separately and then soldered to the handle; this perhaps explains the nature of this fragmentary survival. The object is now corroded with areas of dark-green patina over red/brown metal.
Robert Webley35.87Nynehead CPSOM-1E1F24590779baluster1SCC receipt 22164SPOONRestricted Accessfinds-5907791113.86SOM-1E18D6Fragment1550images/rwebley2/1449193PAS52A1E18D001C1342013-12-06T14:39:09ZCertainx4104712013-06-13T23:00:00Z4POST MEDIEVALCopper alloy41427PM1Circa36http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/POST MEDIEVALCertainCivil Parish2022-07-14T07:11:31.744Zfinds-10975131097513DEV-114689SPOONPOST MEDIEVALAn incomplete early post-medieval lead-alloy spoon (c. 16th century, probably later 16th). The spoon has a pointed oval shaped bowl and a hexagonal stem; the stem terminates in a 'seal top' knop. It is now damaged, and bent, with repairs by the finder, including a sleeve that holds together the broken stem, and glue reattaching two parts of the bowl that had become separated. In addition, the bowl has been bent and has suffered losses. No marks are apparent in the bowl, or on the stem. On the reverse, at the junction of bowl and stem, is a 'rat tail'. The faceted stem has broader panels on the front and reverse. As noted, the stem has been bent towards its terminal, and also broken. At the terminal, below an expanded flat oval top is a waisted baluster with decorative longitudinal ridges. A further, shallow transverse ridge marks the junction with the stem. The spoon is corroded over large areas, with no traces of any coating apparent.
Measurements: length: 155 mm; 44.5 mm max. width (at bowl); weight: 41.26 g3636150016254DEV2022-05-20T00:00:00Z2022-05-20T00:00:00ZSCC receipt 0232922023-02-06T14:53:28Z2023-02-06T16:01:08Z41.26PAS63E11468001A1144.515512512141427105781059610575SomersetSedgemoorEnmoreST223551.10896735-3.11556463bands.shops.handy10DEV-1148E8Lead Alloy11095IncompletePOST MEDIEVALx41047POST MEDIEVALx41047x41047Metal detectorReturned to finderDEV114689spoon.jpg1213145images/rwebley2/South WestCertain12023-02-06T16:01:08.435Z