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SPUR
Unique ID: NMS-EECF9A
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete post medieval copper alloy spur dating to the period c. AD 1600 - 1700. The rowel is missing, but the rowel box has traces of the iron pin in the attachment holes where the rowel would have fitted. The box has expanded and rounded terminals which curve upwards and narrow towards the short neck which is oval in section. Both arms are D-sectioned and terminate in old breaks.
Read (1988) illustrates a spur with a similar drooped and expanded rowel box, but with a longer neck, on page 157, no.1056, which is dated from c.1660-1750.
Margeson (1993) illustrates a similar spur on page 222, fig.170, no.1803, which dates from the second half of the 17th century.
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: 58 mm
Width: 60 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight: 25.1 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 7th August 2017 - Monday 7th August 2017
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 14104
Other reference: IND28092017JS
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: South Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Long Stratton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TM1991
Four figure Latitude: 52.47297414
Four figure longitude: 1.22307312
1:25K map: TM1991
1:10K map: TM19SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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