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Description: | Post medieval cast copper alloy rowel spur, decorated, late 16th-17th century. Two loops at the end of either arm ?? those on one side are damaged and with iron corrosion around the upper loop, those on on the left are complete and with the remains of an iron rivet in the bottom loop. The arms are curved and each is decorated with two rows of five pairs of moulded raised lines, with decoration of a punched beaded diagonal cross with a punched annulet in each quarter between each pair of lines. The projection for the rowel droops downwards, and has a moulded collar. There is iron corrosion in the perforations of the the loops which would have held the rowel. The rowel is missing. Distorted ?? one arm bent outwards, the other slightly inwards. Fine dark green-brown patina. Length c.107mm, width (distorted) 80mm, thickness (maximum, across centre) 15.5mm, weight 43.26g.
See Read 1995 ("History Beneath our Feet", Anglia) p.156 for similar spurs. | Subjects: | rowel | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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