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Description: | Fragment of a gilded copper alloy rowel spur. The spur shank is circular in cross-section, collared and tapers to a pointed terminal. Beneath the terminal there is a broken stepped section. The rowel is has five points to it. In the medieval period the use of gilding on spurs was used to indicate a man?s status as a knight. | 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
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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