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Description: | Cast copper alloy rowel spur. The neck of the spur is oval in cross-section and starts horizontally straight but tapers towards its downwardly bent rowel box. The rowel box is damaged and the rowel is missing but ferrous corrosion visible in the rowel box suggests that the rowel pin was iron. The horizontally straight sides, of flattened D-section, taper from the neck of the spur towards the terminals which are both formed by two rings set like a figure-of-eight equally above and below the front of the spur side. Three of the four terminal rings contain looped and riveted, copper alloy stud attachments for spur leathers. Combined, these characteristics suggest that the spur is of seventeenth or early eighteenth century date. The wearing o spurs, even when not riding, became fashionable during this period. Spurs of this date are usually of iron plated with copper alloy, however, cast copper alloy examples are not unknown. Weight 38.0 grams, Length 63mm, width 61mm, length of stud attachments 22mm. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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