Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 34-35. (2014-2015)

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Medieval Weapons from Bistra Muresului

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One of the buckles found in this material, as well as a small iron plate may also have served for fastening spurs.

1. Rowel spur, its emphatically curved branches end in a single-ring terminal, its neck is short, it has a star rowel of eight points at its end, Tl: 12.5 cm, Bl:

10.5 cm, Neck: 2 cm, triangle cross section, Rowel’s diameter: 1.2 cm (Fig. 9/1)

2. Rowel spur, its slightly curved branches end in a simple single-ring terminal decorated at the meeting point by incised lines, its neck broadens at the end into a circle, its rowel is missing, Tl: 12.5 cm, Bl:10.3, Neck:

2.2 cm (Fig. 9/2)

3. Rowel spur, its branches end in a single-ring terminal and are strongly curved, decorated by two pairs of lines engraved askew, rowel boxes with prominent rowel bosses, its rowel is missing, Tl: 11 cm, Bl: 8.5 cm, N: 2.5 cm (Fig. 9/3)

4. Rowel spur, semicircle cross section, its straight branches end in a two-hole terminal with an oval outline, its right and left branch is decorated by four, respectively three incised lines, two of its hook attachments are intact, one is fragmentary. Its long, massive, half slit neck broadens at the end into conical rowel bosses, it has a star rowel of eight points, Tl: 15.5, Bl: 10 cm, N: 5.5 cm, size of the iron plates: 3.1 x 1.9 and 3.1 X 2.1 (Fig. 9/4)

Fig. 9. Spurs from Bistra Muresului (Drawn by M. Ferenczi)