Rights Holder: Norfolk County Council
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Unique ID: NMS-F49B21
Object type certainty: Certain
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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 action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1600
Date to: AD 1700
Quantity: 1
Length: 44 mm
Width: 7 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st May 2005
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SMR reference number: 39307
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Incised or engraved or chased
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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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. |