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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy spur, probably a rowel spur in type. The sides and the terminals of this spur survive. The sides are 85mm in length, triangular in cross-section and are 16mm in width where they would have met the neck and taper to a width of 7mm just before the terminals. The sides only bend very slightly and are almost straight, they are decorated on the outer face with engraved lozenge-shapes with the top and the bottom of the lozenge-shape disappearing off the edge of the arm, within these lozenge-shapes, of which there are two on each side, there are engraved circles with undulating lines beneath and above them. Inbetween the lozenge-shapes there are more engraved circles, there are further transverse undulating lines where the two sides meet, and where the neck should be. There are also traces of gilding in this decoration. The inside face of the sides are flat and undecorated. Figure-eight terminals are attached to the sides between the two circular loops, one loop has an arm and is not as close to the side as the other, which is at the end of the side with no arm. There are similar spur sides and terminals in Biddle (1990, p1040-1041, Fig,331) which are dated from the late 17th to the late 19th century. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1600
1900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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