Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
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Unique ID: WILT-004887
Object type certainty: Certain
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A fragment of a copper alloy medieval to post-medieval (AD c.1200-c.1700) spur missing its rowel box or prick, its neck and one of the sides. The surviving side and terminal measure 87.7mm long, 10.6mm wide and 8.7mm thick. It weighs 16.27g. The side is D-shaped in cross-section and tapers towards the intact terminal from 10.6mm wide and 5.4mm thick at the break to 4.4mm wide and 3.6mm thick near the terminal. The terminal expands in width to 10.7mm and consists of two circular loops, each containing a copper alloy rivet (8.7mm long). The fragment is decorated with pairs of diagonal transverse ridges of possible niello inlays which are equally spaced with 13mm between each pair.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Quantity: 1
Length: 87.7 mm
Width: 10.6 mm
Thickness: 8.7 mm
Weight: 16.27 g
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Other reference: SSWM 4291
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with niello
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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