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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy spur of Medieval to Post-Medieval date. Part of the sides of the spur survive, but the terminals, neck and rowel or prick spur are now missing due to old breaks. The sides are D-shaped in section and taper from a larger, swollen central section to much thinner ends measuring 3.86mm in height, where they terminate in old breaks. The swollen central section is pointed on one side creating a triangular shaped plan and has on its exterior surface a raised area of moulded decoration. This comprises a transverse band and pendant V-shaped decoration, all of which is contained within a larger and prominent sub-circular area of relief decoration. The entire object measures 96.25mm in length, 9.41mm in height at the widest point, 5.31mm in thickness, and weighs 16.70g. This object appears to be a section from a spur of Medieval to Post-Medieval date. The raised moulded area at the thickest point of the sides in all liklihood represents the remains of a neck from which protruded a rowel box or prick spur (see for example Margeson, 1993: nos. 1797-1798; Read, 1995: no. 1055). A similar example noted in Read (1995: no. 1055) suggests this spur is of Post-Medieval date, probably dating to the 16th-18th centuries AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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