SC - an interesting challenge...and its even about medieval food! :)

[allilyn@juno.com]

    Are you sure it wasn't a Mongolian sex toy?

    Sieggy (because perspiring minds want to know!)


> They are pointy
> spoon bowls (rather like a grapefruit spoon) with a two tine fork on the
> other end.  These are definitely not forks for holding something down
while
> carving it.  They remind me a bit of a fork for getting pickles or olives
> out of the bottle.
> The introduction to the monograph states that most of the finds date from
> between 700-850 CE.
> It also states that:  "A silver 'spoon ' and 'fork' combination, and a
> silver double spoon were in the Sevington hoard, with coins of c. 850
> (Wilson 1964, nos 67 and 68)."