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Description: | Post medieval cast copper alloy incomplete spur. The sides are both incomplete ending in old breaks, the longest remaining side is 61.9mm long. The sides are D shaped in section with a flat inner side, 15.1mm wide, 5.3mm thick. There is a slight crest at the centre from which the neck projects. The neck is long, straight and circular in section. The end has a rough, old, break with a suggestion it may have split into a rowel box, now lost. The neck up to the possible rowel box is 39.7mm long and 11.2mm in diameter. The neck is decorated with stamped lines of C-shaped depressions running along the lengh. The sides are decorated with C-shaped and circular stamps and incised lines forming floral and decorative patterns. It is 96.8mm long in total, 86.6mm wide, 15.3mm thick and weighs 64 grams.While incomplete spurs are hard to date precisely this is likely to be a 16th-17th century decorative spur. During this period, particularly during the reign of Charles I, wearing riding dress including boots and spurs became fashionable and they were worn at all times rather than just for riding; as part of this elaborately decorated spurs became more common.
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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