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The dimensions of the spoons found near Weston are as follows : — 

 length, 4|- inches; diameter of handle, 1^ inches; diameter of 

 bowl, a little over 2| inches. The handles obversely present 

 concentric circular mouldings, but reversely are covered with 

 involuted designs, which, though not exactly alike, yet closely 

 resemble each other. The workmanship on the Bath spoons is 

 peculiarly good. 



Mr. "Way has given drawings of one of a pair found at Llanfair, 

 Denbighshire ; a pair found at Penryn, Cardiganshire ; a pair 

 found at Crosby Ravensworth, Westmoreland ; one found in a 

 turbary in Ireland ; and four others found in pairs in Ireland, now 

 in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy. In each of these 

 pairs one spoon has the small hole at the side of the spoon, about 

 the middle of the length of the bowl, and a cross upon the bowl 

 of the corresponding spoon. The handles are also curiously 

 worked in ornamental patterns. The form of these spoons is still 

 preserved in the horn ladles which once were of common use in 

 the cottages of the poorer peasantry, and served for cooling broth 

 or porridge taken out of a vessel used in common, before it was 

 eaten. That such was not the use of these Celtic bronze spoons 

 appears evident from the small hole, midway on the left-hand side, 

 and the cross marked upon the bowl seems rather to assign them 

 to a sacred purpose ; and Dr. Rock, in his learned essay in the 

 ArchcBological Journal, assigns them to the purpose of Christian 

 Baptism — the one for holding the oil of the catechumens; the other, 



