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SPUR
Unique ID: BH-62C484
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy spur bar and terminal dating to the seventeenth century AD. ,The spur bar is slightly curved in plan and hemispherical in section. The upper surface of the bar is decorated with horizontal ribbed decoration. One end of the bar is broken. The other extends to form a figure-of-eight terminal which sites almost at right angles to the bar. Read (2001) illustrates a similar spur on page 65, fig.41, no.501.
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: 35 mm
Width: 5 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 3.23 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2017
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hertfordshire (County)
District: East Hertfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: High Wych (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL4514
Four figure Latitude: 51.80584235
Four figure longitude: 0.10170557
1:25K map: TL4514
1:10K map: TL41SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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