Spoon

Curly birch spoon with long handle and curved end. Found together with a drinking cup, bowl and a ladle positioned by the eastern stern part of the boat. This placement, together with the fact of them being household objects, suggests that they were used at a burial ceremony. For reasons of space we have chosen to place the objects inside the boat. Grave find, Årby, Rasbokil Parish, Uppland.

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