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SPUR
Unique ID: SUR-F35D21
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A post medieval spur; the terminals and rowel are missing. The short fat square section box tapers into narrow curved arms which held the rowel. Both box and arms are similarly decorated with three bands each partially filled with lines of punched dots. there are four such bands on the box and the bands on the arms terminate in ring and dot stamps.
Class: Rowel
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1650
Date to: Circa AD 1720
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 84 mm
Width: 77.56 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 14th September 2008
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 08.1339
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: Purbeck (District)
Parish or ward: Corfe Castle (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SY9681
Four figure Latitude: 50.628685
Four figure longitude: -2.057914
1:25K map: SY9681
1:10K map: SY91SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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