SC - query about an eating utensil
Siegfried Heydrich
baronsig at peganet.com
Sat May 6 19:15:17 PDT 2000
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)."
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