Two pronged fork - Approx 190mm (7½ inches) in length

The word fork comes from the Latin 'furca' for "pitch fork." The two-prong twig was perhaps the first fork.

By the seventh century, small forks were used at Middle Eastern courts; one such fork, a small, gold, two-pronged tool, came to Italy in the eleventh century in the dowry of a Byzantine princess who married Domenico Selvo, a Venetian doge. After witnessing the princess use the fork, the church severely censured her, stating that the utensil was an affront to God's intentions for fingers

Thereafter the fork disappeared from the European table for nearly 300 years.