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Iron Age Spoons

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moss Dec 6, 2006 14:57:24

Replying to Kammer

Not for cornflakes, maybe a baptismal spoon, early christian/celtic.. Rhiannon is right there was a pair discovered down by our local Locksbrook, where it joins the Avon.

Rhiannon Dec 6, 2006 15:27:59

Replying to moss

I see that one of them's got a perforation - just like the locksbrook ones too. I know they've got a cross on and all but it seems funny to call them 'iron age' if they're christian?
I want a time machine so I can see the locksbrook how it's supposed to be minus all the houses and so on. Suppose I have to use my imagination.

HI DEN Dec 6, 2006 17:05:04

Replying to moss

I ve been hearing from several places(especially in finland), that before christianism children were baptised by their father who gave them one shot of his sperm with a spoon (just sprang to my mind when i saw these spoons and read the word baptism, though at the time of these examples it must´ve been a waning tradition and why there´s two of them...well...).