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Description: | The terminal fragment from a post-medieval copper-alloy spur of c. 17th century. The terminal is offset and looped, turning through around ninety degrees from the vestige of arm that survives. The terminal has a rectangular in cross-section with rounded corners. The loop is formed of what appear to be two wedge-shaped segments with rounded wide ends and a rounded terminal, in what is, in fact, a single terminal. The wedges are delineated by grooves on the upper surface. There is, furthermore, a narrow protruding knop at the start of the rounded terminal's outer edge just inside the groove.The terminal and inner elements are both perforated; the middle element between decorated with a complimentary blind hole on the upper surface. Both holes retain incomplete, corroded iron loops. The spur arm is narrowed compared to the terminal, measuring 5.85mm wide. It has a trapezoidal cross-section resulting from bevelling to each edge on the upper surface.The object is 25.7mm long, 26.2mm wide, 3.5mm thick (9.0mm thick at the more complete loop), and weighs 7.55g. A plain spur of similar form can be found illustrated in Read (1995, 157; ref. 1061) for which a 17th-century date is proposed. See also IOW-8A6865 on this database.
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