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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy spur of probable seventeenth century date. Both sides survive intact, but the rowel box (if this was a rowel spur) or goad (if a prick spur) is missing. The spur has a sub-triangular cross-section, with a flat internal surface and a central facet on the external surface. The thickest point is at the neck and the gently curving sides narrow towards the figure-8 terminals, the lower loops of which are attached to the sides at an obtuse angle. Some degraded iron remains in situ in one of the loops, which would have formed part of the attachments for the spur leathers. The external surfaces are covered in elaborate stamped and gilded decoration. This consists of short parallel diagonal lines along the central ridge and pairs of diagonal lines which zig-zag above and below this central line, with annulets and crescents in between.
Dimensions: 81.1mm by 70.1mm by 17.6mm
Weight: 46.1g | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Payne, Naomi - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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