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Description: | Cast copper-alloy gilded star rowel from a spur. Medieval, c.14th century. Mass: 39.9g; maximum diameter: 87.4mm; maximum point length 45.3mm; thickness: 4mm. The rowel consists of seven points, some of which are twisted, and a central hole which is split. Large rowel spurs (of many points) became popular in the 14th century, and examples are illustrated in: "The Medieval Horse and its Equipment", Clark (ed.), 2004, fig. 106 and p. 149 (cf. no.'s 360 and 363). In general rowels got smaller in the 15th and early 16th centuries (ibid. p. 147). Gilded spurs were buckled on to a man's heels as part of the formal ceremony of making him a knight, and gilt spurs were considered to be the prerogative of knights. (ibid. p.124). But by the late 14th century there were complaints that many mercenary soldiers, some of whom called themselves "knights", wore golden spurs without ever being knighted (ibid.)
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