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Description: | A fragment of a cast copper alloy rowel spur, dating to the Medieval / Post Medieval period from the 14th-17th century AD (length: 36.5mm; width: 11mm; thickness: 12mm; weight: 14.76g). The rowel box is the only fragment that survives with a moulded neck (which is broken beyond this feature where the spur arms would have originally extended from). To the other side of the moulded decoration, there is a pinched/ indented area before the roxel box splits in two with a sub-oval hole in the centre where the rowel would have been (now missing). The rowel box terminates with one complete and one broken rivet hole (rivets now missing), which would have held the rowel in place. The artefact is in a slightly worn and fair condition with a dark green patina. Similar examples are illustrated in John Clark?s ? The Medieval Horse and Its Equipment: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: c. 1150 ? c. 1450?, 1995, pages 139-140, ref nos 335-6. | 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
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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