Silver spoon (cochlear), one of a group of five cigni and one cochlear linked by their style and decoration (1994,0408.101-106). The bowl is a pointed oval bowl with a keeled underside and a rat-tail, and is surrounded by a narrow border of meander pattern between a plain outer line and a feathered inner line, all inlaid in niello (much of it lost or loose). The plain, chamfered handle is joined to the bowl by a zoomorphic offset representing a bird or griffin head with a hooked beak and a dotted pattern. The inscription within the bowl reads PEREGRINI.
- Excavated/Findspot: Hoxne (Hoxne hoard)
- (Europe,British Isles,England,Suffolk,Hoxne (parish))
- Length: 195 millimetres
- Length: 67 millimetres (bowl)
- Width: 38 millimetres (bowl)
- Weight: 31.7 grammes
Inscription Translation(property of) Peregrinus
Not on display
Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- T304 (Treasure number)
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Object reference number: BCB90904
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