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Description: | Cast copper alloy spur with half of one of the terminals remaining, the other side having been broken in antiquity. The terminal has two circles, in a figure-eight formation, now open and incomplete. The sides are semi-circular in cross-section, with curved outer edges and straight inner edges. The spur is undecorated apart from a ridge at the end of the neck that is connected to the main body of the spur, making it look as if the spur was made in two parts, which it was not. The neck then tapers and droops down towards the rowel box and then expands to form a rowel box reminiscent of the distal end of a metacarpal bone! The rowel is missing, but traces of the iron rowel pin remain in the groove of the rowel box. The length of the complete side of the spur, allowing for the curvature, is 60 mm and its width is 10 mm and its thickness is 3.5 mm. The length of the neck is 26 mm and its width is 7.2 mm (minimum) and the thickness is 6 mm. The width of the rowel box is 12.7 mm and its thickness is 6.6 mm. The width of the terminal is 13.6 mm and its thickness is 2.8 mm. The total length, from terminal to rowel box, ignoring the curvature is 70.2 mm. The spur is very similar to one illustrated in Read?s History Beneath Our Feet, p. 157, no.1056, which dates from 1660-1750. | 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: | 1660
1750 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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