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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Post Medieval rowel spur, missing the rowel and its four attachments, c. 17th century AD. The rowel spur consists of a rowel box, a neck and two arms with their figure-of-eight attachment-ends. Both arms have been bent outwards through old damage and additional damage make measurements difficult. Overall it measures approximately 82.4 mm long (with damaged arms), no indication as to original width and weighs 30.9 grams.The rowel box is split in half to fit the rowel and one of these small split arms has been bent out of shape as it connects to the neck. The split arms each have a circular rivet hole which would have held the iron rivet that would have passed through the centre of the rowel, allowing it to rotate. The rivet is now missing and no corrosion product remains to suggest whether this rivet was composed of iron or copper alloy. The rowel box and neck measure approximately 22.2 mm long, 7.5 mm wide and 6.2 mm thick. All elements of the rowel box have been bent slightly or drastically, probably from in situ damage. The arms are D-shaped in cross-section and taper gently from where they meet the neck to their ends which each terminate in figure-of-eight attachment loops. Each arm measures approximately 69 mm long, 13 mm wide (at figure-of-eight attachment-ends) and ranges from 6.7 mm - 2.8 mm thick from upper arm to attachment-end. Cf. Read 2001, pp. 65, nos. 498, 499, 501.
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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