Spur

A pair of iron spurs was found together with a sword with a copper inlay depicting Mars and Victoria, an umbrella, spearheads and spar fittings, part of the rich equipment of a warrior of the Przeworsk culture from the Roman period, discovered in a corpse grave at the archaeological site in Podlodów near Tomaszów Lubelski.

The grave was discovered by accident in 1959, during agricultural works. The relics were donated to the Lublin Museum.

The warrior's grave contained: two iron spurs, a sword with a copper inlay on its head as a figural representation of Roman deities, a bent javelin spearhead with a silver inlay on the leaf and sleeve, two iron javelin spearheads ritually bent and broken, a ferrule (probably a javelin spar fitting).

Two almost identical spurs were forged from iron with an inwardly concave, arched bail. Wide at the base of the spike, the bow tapers gradually, passing into a shaft-like curve of the abutment, finished with lenticular nodules. The spike, partly hollow, has the shape of a slightly bent faceted cone. At the base there are two filed furrows with a densely transversely incised ridge formed between them. The spurs are part of the equipment of a burial placed probably in an ashtray (urn). The warrior buried in the present village of Podlodów was a mounted soldier. He belonged to the military elite of the Przeworsk culture, which functioned in the Lublin region at the beginning of the 3rd century AD.