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Unique ID: SUSS-690821
Object type certainty: Certain
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Two fragments of a cast copper alloy rowel spur. The larger fragment comprises the complete box and neck and parts of both sides. The smaller is the terminal of one side. The two pieces both end in old breaks and do not clearly join suggesting the sides may have been longer. The terminal is figure of eight with the side joining one loop of the 8 which lies at right angles to the arm. The other loop is worn and broken. The sides are D shaped in section with a flat inner side and widen to a crest. The rowel and bar are missing and the ends of the box have been pressed together. The box is 34.7mm long, 35.2 from the centre of the hole for the bar to the neck end indicating the maximum diameter of the rowel. The sides, box and neck are all decorated with a central raised ridge with raised triangles to either side; the points of the triangles meet the central ridge but the ones from each side are slightly offset and do not meet. The ridge, triangles and areas beteen them are covered in stamped semicircles and dots and there are traces of gilding. The semicircles are arranged in a row along the central ridge and in the triangles; they are also used in diagonal lines in the areas between the raised triangles on the box and neck. The sides have dots arranged in curled leaf designs between the triangles. The small piece is 42.4mm long, 18.7mm wide and 3.2mm thick. The larger piece is 96.2mm long, 48.3mm wide and 15.9mm thick. They weigh 60.46 grams. The spur is unusually elaborately decorated, as is consistent with a 17th-century date.
This has been noted as an interesting find by the recorder.
Class: rowel
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Quantity: 1
Weight: 60.46 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 6th June 2008
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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