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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy spur rowel of Post Medieval, seventeenth century date (AD 1600 - AD 1660). Diameter 44mm, maximum thickness 3mm. Weight 6.01g.The rowel is in the shape of a five-pointed star and has trefoil terminals to the arms. The arms are sub-rectangular in plan and also sub-rectangular in cross-section. The trefoil terminals are flat oval in cross-section. On the trefoils the two side foils are vestigial in comparison with the larger central foil which forms a point. One of the arms is completely missing and there is an old break. At the centre is a sub-circular perforation which accommodated the rowel bar. There are no traces of decoration or gilding. The rowel is corroded and small patches of a mid to dark-green patina have survived. A shiny grey substance overlying some of the patina may be the remains of tinning. A close parallel for this rowel has been published by Read and dated to the seventeenth century (Read 2001, 66; ref. 516).
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