Carved decoration on handle. Waterman 1959 describes it as a spoon with "a rather flat, narrow bowl, much distorted and now set angularly to the flat ribbon handle. The handle is shouldered above the bowl and at the head, bearing on the upper surface an engraved three-strand angular plait, edged by alternately shaded chevrons, and terminating in an interlace knot. In this country these two spoons [this and YORYM : C628] stand alone and bear no rememblance to the few known bone spoons of early medieval date. In Scandinavia spoons of bone, horn and wood are common and occur during the Viking Age with round or oval bowl, separated from the handle, which is proportionately shorther than the York examples, by a shoulder or other elaborate moulding. The handle may be plain or ornamented with interlace, which sometimes extends over the bowl. The same form appears in the early medieval period, usually with pure geometric interlace which may betray early Romanesque elements. A later series, with oval bowl and shorter handle, may reflect the form of contemporary metal spoons."
