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Description: | An incomplete post-Medieval cast copper-alloy rowel spur (c. 1600-c. 1800).Parts of the sides and the rowel are missing.Each side is 'D'-shaped in cross-section, flat on the inner face. The maximum depth of the sides near the rowel box (the 'crest') is 12.6mm. It has a neck in the form of a collar which is sub-circular in cross-section. The two elements of the curved rowel box are 'D'-shaped in cross-section, flat on their inner faces. The terminals of the rowel box are lobed and pierced with holes to accommodate an iron axis bar around which the rowel revolved. Fragments of the corroded iron bar survive within the holes. On the outer face of the sides there is an inscribed 'V'-shaped decorative groove. From the collar these grooves taper to a point.This spur is largely matt green and has traces of a dark green patina. Both breaks are old and abraded. There is no indication of any surface treatment.Length: 32.5mm; width: 37.0mm; thickness at crest: 12.6mm; diameter of collar: 7.66mm-8.82mm. Weight: 11.94g.A number of post-Medieval spurs have been published in Detector Finds (Bailey 1995: 92-95).See also: 'Spurs' by Blanche Ellis in Margeson 1993: 220-223.Bailey, G. 1992. Detector Finds. Chelmsford: Greenlight Publishing.Margeson, S. 1993. Norwich Households: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-1978. East Anglian Archaeology 58. Witley Press, Hunstanton.
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