Record ID: NMGW11 - POST MEDIEVAL spur

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SPUR

Unique ID: NMGW11

Object type certainty: Certain

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Incomplete, cast copper alloy rowel spur. The horizontally straight sides, D-shaped in section, taper from the neck of the spur towards the terminal. One arm is broken halfway along its length, the other is complete but has a damaged terminal. Enough of the terminal remains to suggest that it was originally formed by two rings, set like a figure-of-eight, equally above and below the front of the spur side. The neck is short, starts horizontal and then tapers towards the downward bent rowel box. The back of the spur is decorated with an elongated lozenge motif made up of cast lines. Corrosion visible in the rowel suggests that the rowel pin was made of iron. Seventeenth to early eighteenth century in date.

Notes:

Spurs of this date and form are usually manufactured from iron tinned with copper alloy; however, other cast copper alloy examples are not unknown.

Class: Rowel

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: AD 1700
Date to: AD 1825

Dimensions and weight

Length: 76 mm
Width: 55 mm
Quantity: 1

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Fragment [scope notes | view all attributed records]

Spatial data

Region: Wales
County: Pembrokeshire
District: Pembrokeshire
To be known as: Manorbier

Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Other [scope notes]
Specific landuse: Unknown [scope notes]

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st March 1999

Personal details

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Recorded by: Philip MacDonald - [ view all attributed records]
Identified by: Philip MacDonald - [view all attributed records]

Other reference numbers

Other reference: NMGWPA: 99.1.1

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