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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy spur of Post-Medieval, probably seventeenth century date (c. AD 1600 - c. AD 1700). Only part of one side, the neck and an incomplete rowel box remain. The side is pointed oval in cross-section with a slightly convex inner and outer face; it is bent outwards and has an old break at the end. The spur has no crest but the side widens from 5.5mm wide at the break to 7.1mm wide at the centre. The short neck projects from the centre, it is oval in section (7.4 by 6.4mm) and plain. The box is formed of two arms D shaped in cross section with flat inner sides. both are bent and broken before the terminals. The spur fragment is highly corroded, obscuring any decoration or surface treatment. It is 48.0mm long, 38.4mm wide and 7.1mm thick; it weighs 7.16 grams.The spur can be paralleled by two slender examples recovered from Norwich Survey Excavations (Margeson, 1993, 220, fig. 170, refs. 1799-1800). These examples are dated to the first half of the seventeenth century.
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