划艇支线（左侧） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	划艇支线（左侧）
品名（英）	Rowel Spur (Left)
入馆年号	1942年，42.50.297
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1300 - 公元 1350
创作地区	原产国: 可能是法国（Country of Origin: possibly France）
分类	马术装备马刺（Equestrian Equipment-Spurs）
尺寸	长 5 1/4 in (13.3 厘米); 宽 3 1/2 英寸 (8.9 厘米); 直径 of rowel 1 3/8 英寸 (3.5 厘米); 重 5.4 盎司 (153.1 g)
介绍（中）	其余的突出部分和带扣的小礼拜堂上装饰着狮子逾越节，这是一种纹章装置。然而，在这里，它们可能只是装饰性的，并不涉及任何特定的家庭大约在13世纪中期，西欧出现了第一个在颈部末端有旋转圆盘或恒星的罗威尔马刺。它们与早期的刺状刺共同生活了大约一个世纪，直到14世纪中期，刺状刺在欧洲几乎完全被取代。桨刺比刺刺的优势在于，无论脚的角度如何，它都可以让骑手用其中一个点到达马的侧翼，这对于当时的骑行位置来说非常方便，有着长长的马镫皮和伸展的腿。事实上，赛艇没有直接撞到马，而是撞到了马身上，这也降低了它受重伤的可能性。由于骑士的地位与他的马密切相关，马刺成为骑士精神的象征之一，也是他被封为骑士期间的象征之一。
介绍（英）	The remaining tab and the chape of the buckle are decorated with lions passant, a heraldic device. Here, however, they are probably only decorative and do not refer to any particular family. The first rowel spurs, which featured a revolving disc or star at the end of the neck, appeared in Western Europe around the mid-13th century. They cohabitated with the earlier form, the prick spur, for about a century, before replacing it almost completely in Europe by the mid-14th century. The advantage of the rowel spur over the prick was it allowed the rider to reach the flanks of its horse with one of the points whatever the angle of its foot, which was very convenient regarding the riding position of the time, with long stirrups-leathers and extended legs. The fact that the rowel rolled against the horse instead of hitting it directly reduced also the probability of injuring it too seriously. As a knight’s status was closely related to his horse, spurs became one of the symbols of chivalry, and one of the tokens given to him during his knighting.