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SPUR
Unique ID: WMID-4CB927
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete cast copper alloy twelve pronged rowel, from a spur, of Medieval dating (AD 1200 to AD 1500).
The spur rowel has been distorted through soil pressure and movement whilst within the plough soil. The rowel is flat, and consists of twelve oval sectioned projections, arranged around a central circular perforation. This hole has an internal diameter of 3.31 mm.
The rowel measures 36.44 mm in length, 39.38 mm wide and 5.37 mm thick. It weighs 15.3 g.
The rowel is a mid brown to green colour, with an uneven surface patina. Abrasion, caused by movement whilst within the plough soil, has resulted in a loss of some of the original surface detail.
Rowel spurs came into use from the Late 13th century onwards until around the 16th Century. No typology has yet been properly developed to classify the different rowels and the dates, although Read (1995, 90) suggests that the multi point rowels such as this example became more popular after c.1350 AD.
Reference:
Read, B. 1995. History Beneath our feet. Ipswich. Anglia Publishing.
Class: rowel
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 36.44 mm
Width: 39.38 mm
Thickness: 5.37 mm
Weight: 15.3 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st April 2012
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: North West Leicestershire (District)
Parish or ward: Stretton en le Field (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK2911
Four figure Latitude: 52.695909
Four figure longitude: -1.572333
1:25K map: SK2911
1:10K map: SK21SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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