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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy spur of post-medieval date. Length 99.3 mm, width 43.23 mm, weight 27.8 grams. The spur arms are D shaped in section and the spur terminates in a neck and a split box for the spur rowel which is missing. The terminals at the attachment end are elaborately cast with openwork and a doubly pierced shell-shaped finial. Ferrous corrosion fills all but one of these piercings, showing where the spur was attached. The spur has a smooth dark green patina, worn and chipped in places.The form and details are exactly the same as two others recorded on this database, GLO-B47026, found in Wiltshire, and NMS-4D3753 from Norfolk. The type was therefore clearly widely distributed. Another identical example is known from Exeter, which, along with two others from London and Reigate (Surrey), were considered to share a common place of manufacture and to date to the second half of the 17th century (Blanche Ellis in Allan 1984, 341, fig.192 no. 145).
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