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SPUR
Unique ID: SUR-B08440
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy spur 'star' rowel with twelve points, lozenge-shaped in plan and section, radiating from a central perforation that is 4.8 mm in diameter.
Notes:
Rowel spurs of this kind were in use from the 13th century until modern times. Ellis and Egan in Clark (2004) illustrate a similar example with twelve points on page 148, Fig.106, No.360, which is dated from c.1340-1400; and another with sixteen points, in Fig.107, from an effigy carved c.1387-94.
Class: rowel
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.8 mm
Weight: 8.59 g
Diameter: 33.3 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Vale of White Horse (District)
Parish or ward: Great Faringdon (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU3094
Four figure Latitude: 51.64400445
Four figure longitude: -1.56784403
1:25K map: SU3094
1:10K map: SU39SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clark, J. | 1995 | The Medieval Horse and its Equipment c.1150 - c.1450 | London | HMSO |
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