Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . medieval pottery, including aspecimen of fourteenth-century dark green glaze, with acurious rmg handle, and of fifteenth century light greenglaze, with mask-head ornamentation. A brass gaiter spur^ circa seventeenth century. ABRASS NEEDLE, probably same period. A copper lustresalt CELLAR, eighteenth century. (Pithay.) From a seventeenth-century rubbish pit on the river bank,just without the old city wall, an unusually interestingspecimen of a three-prong brass fork {see illustration) wasdiscovered early in the year. This
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . medieval pottery, including aspecimen of fourteenth-century dark green glaze, with acurious rmg handle, and of fifteenth century light greenglaze, with mask-head ornamentation. A brass gaiter spur^ circa seventeenth century. ABRASS NEEDLE, probably same period. A copper lustresalt CELLAR, eighteenth century. (Pithay.) From a seventeenth-century rubbish pit on the river bank,just without the old city wall, an unusually interestingspecimen of a three-prong brass fork {see illustration) wasdiscovered early in the year. This rare specimen, which measures yj inches long, has aflat split-ended handle, with very low clefts, and all the edgesare slightly bevelled. I reported my find to Mr. WilfridCripps, , , the celebrated authority on OldEnghsh Plate, who agreed in placing the date any timeduring the last quarter of the seventeenth century, probablyabout 1680. 1 Num. Chron., 3rd Series, vol. xix., Plate 17, No. por other spurs found in Bristol, see Transactions, xxiv., p. Face page 147. Plate III. Bristol Arch^ological Notes for 1902. 147 Both Mr. Trapnell, of Clifton, and Mr. Drane, of Cardiff,possess a similar fork in silver, but these collec-tors are inclined to place the date temp. Charles I. Mr. Cripps says that until the commence-ment of the seventeenth century one or two forksare all that would be found, even in large houses,for the service of the table, but at this time thefashion of using them at meals in the modern waywas imported from Italy, and, as we may gatherfrom Ben Jonson and other writers, was fairlyestablished by about 1620. Large silver forksand spoons such as those now called tablespoonsand forks, were first used in France about 1640,and then soon became common. ^ These are two items of LOCAL history worthy of special record. Just recently, through the decease of a memberof the Terrell family, several of whose membershave been connected with the commerce of thi
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