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SPOON
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Stuart Noon, 2017-06-13 15:25:27
Title
SPOON
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A complete silver trifid spoon with a floral decoration of post-medieval date 1670 - 1700AD. The handle has a flat section and increases in width towards its flat-ended terminal. The bowl is oval and concave and the stem is flat and rectangular in cross section and is crushed and distorted. At the point that the stem meets the bowl a 'rats tail' develops and is a third of the bowl in length. Using 'scratch engraving' a foliate design has been engraved on either side of the rats tail, there is one petal/leaf around the end of the rats tail. The stem widens after the half way point and is now broken but would have originally ended in three points. Both sides of the stem are decorated with a foliate design within a border with a larger flower at the terminal end. No maker's marks are visible. The length is 97mm, the width is 30mm and the weight 6.08g.

The trifid spoon is the earliest spoon of modern form (Snodin, p.29). This is a 'lace-back' example (Snodin, p.31), so named because of the lace like scrolling foliage engraved on the back of the bowl. Trifid spoons became popular in the 1670's possibly following the French examples imported during the time of the restoration and the style lasted up until around 1700. Similar examples has been recorded on the database (2012 T901, SUSS-69C4A3) and SUSS-FBF5B6.
The age and precious metal content of this item therefore qualify it as treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Lancashire
Date between 1670 and 1700
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1670-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1700-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 852568
Old ref: LANCUM-FF5B24
Filename: LANCUMFF5B24.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/618754
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/618754/recordtype/artefacts
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Object location53° 51′ 00.36″ N, 2° 22′ 30.5″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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