A MEDIEVAL SILVER-GILT SPOON

The original use of this spoon has been the subject of much discussion. Constable, op. cit., p. 25 records that C. Oman suggested in English Domestic Silver, London, 1968 that this spoon might have been for use in church as an incense spoon to transfer incense from the boat to the censer. He cites an inventory of 1368 from the Archdeaconry of Norwich which records an incense spoon at West Walton Church. Another possibility is that it was a chalice spoon, however How considered the former use more probable.