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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy spur of Post-Medieval date (AD 1500 - AD 1700). Length: 60.0mm; width 55.8mm and 6.3mm thick. Weight: 14.25g.The spur is generally U-shaped in plan with a projecting rowel box and the terminals are missing due to old breaks. One of the sides is misshapen. The sides are roughly D-shaped in cross-section. The inner face of each side is slightly convex and the outer faces are strongly convex. There is no crest and no neck between the U-shaped sides and the rowel box which is integral with the sides. The rowel box is also incomplete due to old breaks. Consequently, the perforations that would have accommodated the rowel bar are missing. Each element comprising the rowel box is D-shaped in cross-section, flat on the inner faces.There is no evidence for decoration or gilding.The spur is corroded overall and has small patches of a mid to dark green patina. The surface colour of the metal where the patina has not survived is reddish brown. There are also superficial copper alloy corrosion products present.
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