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Description: | Copper alloy rowel spur of the 'dropped' neck type. The rowel is missing and the two sides of the spur are broken. The broken terminal from one side was found with main spur. Both loops on this terminal have smooth breaks due to old wear, the side is attached to one loop with the second loop coming off the first at a 105 degree angle to the side. The break on the side is rough but also patinated suggesting an old break. The sides are triangular in section with a flat inner side; the outer side is decorated with regular chevrons. The sides are 6.8 mm wide and 2.8mm thick by the terminal and 15.4mm wide and 6.1mm thick by the neck and have been bent away from their origional curve.The neck is short (11.7mm long) with a thick waist, thinning to either end. It is attached to the rowel box at a c.105 degree angle. The rowel box is curved, 32.1mm long, each arm is D-shaped in section and terminates in a loop with a central drilled hole 2.8mm in diameter. The rowel and pin are missing, the length from the pin hole to the inside of the rowel box (thus the maximum diameter of the rowel) is 18.3mm. The remaining spur weighs 46.4 grams, 49.2 grams including the detached terminal. It is 65.3mm long, 60.6mm wide and 30.8mm thick. The detached fragment of side and terminal is 27.9mm long, 14.7mm wide and 2.9mm thick.
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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