thumb|right|160px|alt=two longhandled spoons, the "handle" is a tapering metal spike|Two silver cochlearia from the Hoxne Hoard A cochlearium (plural cochlearia) was a small Roman spoon with a long tapering handle.
thumb|right|160px|alt=two longhandled spoons, the "handle" is a tapering metal spike|Two silver cochlearia from the Hoxne Hoard A cochlearium (plural cochlearia) was a small Roman spoon with a long tapering handle.
==History== Cochlearia have been found in a number of Roman sites from the 4th and 5th centuries CE, including the Thetford and Hoxne Hoards.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).