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Description: | A worn, cast copper-alloy spur rowel of probable medieval date. The rowel is in the shape of a five-pointed star. The arms are rectangular with rounded corners in section. Two of the arms are shorter than the others, at 9.2mm and 10.0mm compared with c. 10.7mm. There is central circular perforation through the body of the rowel through which the rivet attaching it to the spur would have travelled. The rowel is undecorated on both faces, although there are slight grooves radiating out from the perforation between the arms. Similar spur rowels with thin arms (albeit with a greater number of them) can be found illustrated in Read (2001, 66; refs. 510, 513). As these rowels are probably medieval a similar date is thus suggested for this artefact. | 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: | 1300
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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