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Description: | Fragment of a cast copper alloy rowel spur of Post Medieval date, probably seventeenth century (AD 1600 - AD 1700). Length 52.0mm. Weight 34.91g. A stub adjoining the neck is all that survives of the sides. However, enough remains to show that the spur did not posses a crest. The neck is stout and is roughly circular in cross-section, having a diameter of about 10.0mm. The rowel box is at angle of about 90° to the neck. It is formed by a longitudinal recess which creates two arms in which the missing rowel was situated. Each of these arms, convex on the outer face, terminate with a small lobed expansion which is transversely perforated to take a bar around which the rowel revolved. The bar, made of iron, is complete but it is broken and corroded. The neck and the rowel box are decorated overall with lines of punched crescent-shaped indentations.The spur is largely in fair condition and has traces of a dark green patina. The breaks are old.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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