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Description: | Almost-complete rowel spur, probably for the right foot. Only one terminal survives, of figure-8 shape, with the side attached to the upper loop. The intact side is slightly curved, and is decorated on the outer surface with engraved and relief ornament - a zone of longitudinal ribbing, then a relief T shape with scrolled ends to the bar (the stalk of the T pointing away from the ribbing) then a transverse moulding nicked to resemble cabling, then all the motifs again in mirror-image running up to the neck. The other side has the zone of ribbing nearest to the neck and the scrolled bar of the T, but otherwise is undecorated; the decoration seems never to have been made, not to have been worn off. This side would have been innermost if the spur was worn on the right foot. There is an oval moulding at the base of the neck, then the neck is bulbous, tapering to a downward-bent rowel box which is again decorated on each face with the ribbing and scrolled relief T shape. There is a transverse groove and moulding forming the terminals to the rowel box, each of which is perforated to take the end of an iron bar. The shape of the curved sides and the asymmetrically joined terminals suggests a medieval date, but the bulbous, downward-curving neck and rowel box are entirely wrong for this. The decoration shows that this is in fact one of the rare early seventeenth-century spurs with curved sides. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1600
1650 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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