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Description: | An incompete copper-alloy rowel spur. This spur is complete except for the terminal of one side and the rowel itself. It is a deep U-shape with figure-of-eight terminals. The complete arm measures 78.7mm in length and is 16.9mm wide at the crest and tapers to a width of c6mm at the terminal end. The outer face of the sides are decorated with two sets of two lozenge shaped grooves (one inside the other). Inside the central lozenge shaped grooves there are three boarder rows of tiny circular indentations and within these larger circular indentations can be seen. After the last lozenge shaped groove near to the terminal end of the complete side there are three longitudinal lines of crescent shaped indentations. Traces of gilding can also be seen within the decorative indentations on the sides. The one surviving figure-of-eight terminal measures 18mm in length and 10mm in width. The side is attached to one loop of the terminal and set at right angles to it, the other loop is parallel with the first. The neck of this spur is short and swollen, it roughly oval in cross-section, measuring 14mm width by 15mm in thickness. The rowel box begins almost straight away with its two parallel arms curving downwards. The terminals of both of the rowel box arms have parallel circular perforations through them, one has corroded iron within it, from the missing rowel. This rowel spur is likely to be late medieval or early post-medieval, c15th-17th century in date. | 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: | 1450
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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