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Description: | A cast copper alloy spur rowel of possible Medieval to Post-Medieval date. It is flat and has five elongated triangular points that radiate from a central circular perforation and have slightly faceted surfaces. Each of the five points has scrollwork or foliate decoration at either side, giving the points an almost lis-shaped appearance. These moulded areas of decoration project and join the corresoinding moulded decoration on neighbouring points, thus creating the impression of a circular openwork plate from which the five points extend. Both faces of the rowel are decorated with punched crescents that run down each of the five points. The central circular perforation measures 3.95mm in length and 3.55mm in width, and has probably been elongated due to use wear. There is no further trace of any other decoration or indeed the iron bar or rowel box. This spur rowel measures 53.48mm in maximum diameter, 3.17mm in thickness, and weighs 14.17g.
The London Museum Medieval Catalogue (LMMC) notes that rowel spurs were probably introduced in Britain by the early 14th century AD, with the earliest examples generally similar in form to prick spurs and the rowels small in size (LMMC: pp. 103-105). Larger and more elaborate spurs are noted in the 15th and 16th centuries due to the increasing size of leg armour, and similar shaped spurs, but missing the more elaborate decorative elements of the current example, are recorded in London (LMMC: pp. 105-112). Without the remaining sections of the spur itself it is difficult to give a precise date for the rowel. However the current example is likely to be of later Medieval to Post-Medieval date from any point between the 14th and 17th centuries AD, and given its decoration and form perhaps slightly later in the date range. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Brown, Andrew | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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