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Description: | A damaged iron rowel spur, missing its rowel and strap attachments. The neck of the spur terminal is fairly short at 27.6 mm long. It terminates with a slit, within which the rowel would have been placed. The arms of the spur, which would grip the ankle, are quite close together, although this appears to have been largely a result of the right hand arm having been bent inwards. The spur is ridged on the obverse and the reverse, and flat on the inside, making it triangular in section. The angle of the spur terminal leans back, suggesting that the spur arms would curve underneath the riders ankle, in a similar fashion to examples illustrated in Ellis (1991, page 73; figs 4-7). Rowel spurs only emerged in Europe in the first half of the 13th century so the artefact must date from 1200 at the earliest. The short length of the spur terminal is possibly suggestive of an early rather than later medieval date, as spurs got longer into the period when gothic fashion predominated. However, as Ellis (1991, page 60) has stated, short spurs are known from the later medieval period, as long elaborate spurs were not always practical, nor was the fashion followed by all. Given the artefact's damaged condition, along with its missing rowel, it is difficult to discern any sort of precise date although it seems likely that it is medieval 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: | 1200
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tom Brindle | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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