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Post-Medieval 'Seal-top' Spoon
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Frank Basford, 2016-02-09 09:03:50
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Post-Medieval 'Seal-top' Spoon
Description
English: A fragment of a post-Medieval copper-alloy 'seal-top' knop spoon or 'baluster seal' type (1550-1650). Geake 2001: 76.

The bowl and the majority of the stem are missing.


The terminal has a flat plain top with a waist/decorated collar/collar/decorated baluster/collar/stem. The stem is hexagonal in cross-section.

Height: 36.0mm; diameter of top: 14.2mm; width of stem: 4.9mm; thickness of stem: 3.8mm. Weight: 9.98g.

This spoon is reddish green with traces of a white metal coating. The break is old.


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 there seems to be no engraving. Moore (1999, 5) also highlights the fact that such knops were cast separately and then soldered to the handle. However, this example appears to be integral.

Geake, H. 2001 Finds Recording Guide Version 1.1.

Moore, S., 1999. Cutlery for the Table. Sheffield: Hallamshire Press.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Isle of Wight
Date between 1550 and 1650
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 766998
Old ref: IOW-908ED0
Filename: IOW2016140.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/552538
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/552538/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/766998
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