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Description: | A worn and incomplete cast copper-alloy spur rowel of post-medieval date. The rowel is in the shape of a five-pointed star, with trefoil terminals to the arms. The arms are rectangular with rounded corners in section. On the trefoils the two flanking foils are vestigial compared to the large central foil which forms a point. One of the arms has been lost following an old break close to the body before the trefoil element. There is a slightly off-centre circular perforation through the body of the rowel through which the rivet attaching it to the spur would have travelled. The rowel is decorated on both faces by (five) incised lines radiating out from the perforation, between the arms. There are further linear incisions, broadly transverse, across the arms, some of which retain traces of the gilding which would have once covered the rowel. A close parallel can be found in Read (2001, 66; ref. 516) which is dated to the 17th-century. There is also a comparable example on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database, reference IOW-8B4DF3.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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