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Record ID: NMS-CF9985
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver spoon with slip top terminal, hexagonal sectioned stem and pear shaped bowl. Next to a short triangular tail on the reverse of the bowl there is a stamped maker's mark AH on the end of the stem. There are no other marks. The bowl, crumpled when found, has been partly opened, and all the surfaces carry many scratches. Length 128mm (stem 75mm, bowl 53mm). Weight 18.03g / 0.636oz. Slip top spoons were current throughout the 16th century and went out of fashion in the middle of the 17th century. This example dates towards the end of this period.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 14th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mid Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-953302
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval or post-medieval silver spoon. Incomplete handle of slightly flattened hexagonal section with very short triangular moulding on the reverse of the bowl. The surviving shoulders of the bowl are fairly straight and at a narrow angle of slightly less than 90 degrees to each other but not enough survives to suggest a bowl shape. There is a stamped G in low relief on the inside of the bowl at the base of the stem, to be read stem-down. The surface is pitted with beading suggesting it has been partially molten at some point, and has been distorted. Maximum surviving wid…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-6D0C5B
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver spoon knop of seal top type. From the top down; plain disc, narrow fluted baluster, constriction, tapering fluted baluster, two plain narrow mouldings, short length of hexagonal-sectioned stem before break. The end of the stem is damaged, perhaps partially molten or miscast on one side. Length (excluding surviving stem) 23.5mm. Diameter of disc 15mm. Weight 11.8g. For a very similar example on a complete spoon see Gask (1926, 88 and pl.XIII, no.3). 16th century.
Created on: Saturday 14th May 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A5EBF2
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver spoon handle, bowl missing. D-sectioned at break, expanding smoothly and becoming flat-sectioned before rounded turned up end. Engraved M•B on the front at the terminal, the first down strokes of both letters filled with angled lines, with stamped marks before the break the only legible one of which is a lion passant with front paw raised. Circa late 17th - 18th century. Weight 3.8g. Surviving length 60mm. Maximum surviving width 10mm.
Created on: Monday 6th July 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
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Record ID: NMS-4BC706
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper alloy Roman spoon. Pear-shaped bowl of Crummy Type 2, A short section of flat-sectioned off-set handle only survives. Traces of tinning. Width of bowl 27mm. Length of bowl 49mm.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thompson', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-ADD998
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post medieval copper alloy spoon. Round or slightly oval bowl, now bent and torn at the edges, with no visible marks. The stem is rectangular-sectioned as it tapers from the bowl, becoming narrower and more oval-sectioned towards the simplified and elongated acorn knop. Width of bowl at least 49mm. Length of bowl (reconstructed) circa 60mm. Length of stem 122mm. 14th - 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-08C067
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late post-medieval copper alloy spoon. Oval bowl with short triangular 'rat tail' on the reverse. Stem missing. 18th century or later. Length 34mm. Width 18mm.
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 6th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-00B105
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete post-medieval silver spoon. The distorted bowl has almost straight sides and rounded ends, and is decorated internally with a central octofoil with an oval at it's centre, reserved on a pointed oval field of closely spaced lines of rocke-rarm engraving (the blade of the engraving tool having been shaped to produce a pattern), within a rectangle formed from parallel lines of tiny stamped lozenges. Rocker-arm forms quarter circles at the internal angles of each corner of the rectangle, and there are pairs of short, curved, opposing lines of rocker-arm at the external angles. …
Created on: Tuesday 1st November 2011
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-785D45
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of silver spoon consisting of a small length of stem of irregular hexagonal section, a triple collar of similar section and a wrythen knop. Wrythen-knopped spoons were popular over a short period in the late 15th and early 16th centuries (Gask 1926, 50-1). Date: Late 15th or early 16th century. Dimensions: Length greater than 24.5mm. Width of knop 10mm, of stem 5mm. Weight 6.73g. The age and precious metal content of this item therefore qualify it as treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996. Dr. A. Rogerson
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Acle', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-7D7386
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of large spoon, oblique break across shallow oval bowl with the stump of a rectangular-sectioned stem that continues onto the back of the bowl as a rat-tail in the form of a rather etiolated acanthus leaf. There is a broadly similar form of stem and rat-tail, although with more elaborate decoration on the reverse of a Lobe-end spoon dated to 1679-80 in Gask (1926), plate xx, 4-5. 17th century. >39 x >40mm.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF54A0
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron age copper alloy spoon. Thin, very shallow dish, pointed at one end and rounded at the other with a groove forming a border around the edge of the dish and very faint traces of an incised cross on the concave face. The handle is formed by a flat crescent shaped projection at the rounded end of the dish decorated with two shallow circular depressions and a groove around the edge, and a much thicker disc with a raised, moulded edge and large central circular boss with central circular depression on the upper face. The field surrounding the boss contains no trace of enamel or keying …
Created on: Thursday 4th March 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ditchingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8EBF85
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of spoon. Approximately half of bowl and 7mm of oval sectioned stem remain. Rats tail extends 12mm from stem over back of bowl. Tinned / white metal coated. At least 24mm long, bowl at least 17mm wide.
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.