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SPUR
Unique ID: LIN-3733E5
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
Elaborate gilt copper alloy rowel spur. One fairly straight side survives, which projects slightly downwards from behind the heel, the forward end bending upward towards a figure of eight terminal. The sides are quite deep, flat on the inside face and slightly convex on the outer.
The neck rises steeply from the main frame, and then dips sharply downwards, splitting into the two arms of the rowel box, each with circular terminals, both pierced to hold an iron rowel in place. There is iron corrosion on the rowel box terminals.
The entire face of the object is decorated with an elaborately incised and gilded design of uncertain motif, made up of engraved circles and part-circles.
Short-necked rowel spurs seem to have been popular both from the 13th to early 15th century, and in the late 16th to 18th century. The style of decoration dates this example to the 17th century.
Class: rowel
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 120 mm
Width: 15 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Decoration method: Incised
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF4590
Four figure Latitude: 53.38694
Four figure longitude: 0.178783
1:25K map: TF4590
1:10K map: TF49SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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