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Description: | Highly decorative cast copper alloy rowel from a seventeenth century spur. The rowel has five arms each curving through a triple curve as they narrow to a point. The arms are decorated on both sides with stamped dots arranged in curls. There are traces of gilding in some of the dots. There is a central circular hole, filled and surrounded by iron corrosion. It is 38.5mm in diameter and 4.1mm thick; it weighs 11.49 grams.
Charles I set a fashion for men to wear boots, often with elaborate spurs, on most occasions. These spurs could be highly decorative and are often stamped and gilded. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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