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SPUR
Unique ID: NMS-F49B21
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete post-medieval spur side with heart-shaped terminal. The side, D-shaped in section (maximum 7mm x 3mm) and decorated with a line of closely-spaced roughly V-shaped punches, is separated from the terminal by a transverse grooved moulding. On the front of terminal there is a groove between the two apertures. Surviving length 44mm. For three broadly similar examples, considered to date to the Civil War see B. Ellis in Ellis, P. (ed.) Beeston Castle 1993, 165-9, fig. 114 nos. 23-5. 17th century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1600
Date to: AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 44 mm
Width: 7 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st May 2005
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 39307
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Incised or engraved or chased
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
To be known as: Hillington
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellis, P. | 1993 | Beeston Castle, Cheshire: A Report on the Excavations 1968-85 by Laurence Keen and Peter Hough | London | Historic Buildings & Monuments Commission for England | 165-9, fig. 114 nos. 23-5. |
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