POST MEDIEVAL SPOON

1600

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. A short triangular tail on the reverse is all that remains of the handle. There are no traces of any marks. Probably not an English type, but without the stem very difficult to confirm. Date: Probably 18th century or later Dimensions: Surviving length of bowl 34mm. Width of bowl 31mm. Weight 5.15g. The find dates to later than 1711 and as such falls outside the provisions of the Treasure Act 1996.