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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy rowel spur. Probably mid-seventeenth century. Both terminals, the rowel and half of the side of the rowel box are missing. Length of the surviving part 110mm, maximum width between the outer faces of the sides 49mm. Weight 47.22g. The sides diminish in depth from the crest towards the breaks near the terminals. At the crest the depth is 16.5mm and at the breaks, near the terminals, the depth is about 7mm. Each side is about 3mm thick. Viewed from the end, where the neck and rowel box are situated, the crest has a moderately curving profile, unlike some other spurs that have a pronounced pointed crest. A similarly curving profile occurs along the bottom edge, beneath the neck. From the neck, and below the crest, a decorative groove, about 27mm in length, extends obliquely downwards in a gentle curve on each of the sides. Each side is generally D-shaped in cross-section. However, the inner face of the sides are slightly convex. The neck is 11mm in length and consists of two beaded mouldings separated by a grooved recess. The moulding nearest the crest is about 5mm in length and 12mm in diameter and the moulding nearest the rowel box is 2.5-3mm in length and 10mm in diameter. The rowel box, 24mm in length, curves abruptly downwards and terminates with a stepped swelling on the outer face to accommodate the perforations for the rowel bar. The perforation appears to have been distorted through wear and is now not circular, but oval in shape. This wear has created a break on the lower side of the surviving rowel box. In cross-section both sides of the rowel box are D-shaped in cross-section and flat on the inner faces. There is no iron staining in the vicinity of the perforation. The breaks on the sides, near the terminals and that on the rowel box are old. The spur, although incomplete, is in good condition, and it has a regular dark green patina overall. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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