Silver-gilt bird-headed spoon of the type call a cignus, Romano-British, buried in the early-to-mid 5th century near Hoxne, Suffolk, England, and excavated in November 1992.
Text from the British Museum information board:
'Silver-gilt spoons -
A pair of silver-gilt strainer-spoons with handles in the form of dolphins. Each depicts a bearded man in the bowl, probably the sea-god Oceanus (also shown on the Mildenhall Great Dish, case 22). They probably served solid foodstuffs floating in a liquid, maybe cheese in brine or fruit floating in water. The other spoon shows a marine beast, half-cat, half-fish. It seems to belong with the other two.
P&E P. 1994 4-8 62-64'
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