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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy rowel spur. One attachment terminal, the corresponding side arm and the fitting for the rowel survive. The arm is oval shaped in section and tapers along its length so that it is narrowest at the point where it meets the attachment terminal. The attachment terminal is an asymmetrical trefoil in shape with three circular piercings (the two outer ones being 4.5mm diameter and the central one being slightly smaller at 4mm diameter) - These holes would have been used to attach the straps and buckles for fastening the spur to the boot. The attachment for the missing rowel consists of a sub-cylindrical projection protruding from the rearward part of the spur where the two arms of the spur, arranged in U-shaped arch to fit around the ankle, would have met. The rowel projection has a rounded collar where it abuts the arms and is then split into two halves with a pierced circular terminal at each end, one of which is now broken. The rowel which would have rotated on an axis within this split fitting is now missing.While '8' shaped (twice-pierced) terminals are commonly found on spurs from the 15th to 17th centuries, those with an extra third small hole are thought to date towards the end of this range in the early 17th century. this fitting has therefore been dated as c.1600-1700.
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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