SC - Quinces (and a query about an eating utensil)
Wanda Pease
wandapease at bigfoot.com
Sat May 6 19:04:43 PDT 2000
I have a book: _The Gold, Silver and Other Non-Ferrous Alloy Objects from
Hamwic: The Southampton Finds Volume Two_ by David A. Hinton ISBN:
0-7509-1167-0. On page 57 it shows several spoon/forks. 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)."
> <<
> On a completely different subject, does anyone remember an eating utensil
> which was mentioned on the List a few weeks ago? It was a spoon
> on one end
> and a 3 tined fork on the other. The poster said that she (I think) had
> seen it at an event and had been assured by its owner that it was a
> documentable Anglo-Saxon design. If anyone can give me further
> information
> on this, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
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