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SPUR
Unique ID: DOR-EC8B11
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper alloy spur.The spur does not have a neck and so has niether a rowel nor a goad. Instead there is a lozengiform projection with transverse grooves top and bottom and a central trapeziodal low knop. The projection is framed by rows of ring and dot stamps. One arm is complete, the other is broken about halfway along its length. The arms curving with a triangular in cross section and taper towards the terminals. The remaining terminal is a pair of circular knops with central sub circular apertures throught which the spur leathers were attached. The surface of the arms is decorated with an incised foliate pattern of leaves and tendrils.
Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600 - 1700
Dimensions: 83.68 mm x 59.30 mm x 7.80 mm
Weight: 36.85 g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 83.86 mm
Width: 59.3 mm
Thickness: 7.3 mm
Weight: 36.85 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st February 2013 - Friday 1st November 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 022330
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Leaf
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: North Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Fifehead Neville (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST7609
Four figure Latitude: 50.87998975
Four figure longitude: -2.34250956
1:25K map: ST7609
1:10K map: ST70NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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