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Description: | Copper-alloy hook-attachment from a spur. The plate is sub-rectangular with rounded corners, and has a thin strip projecting centrally from either long edge. One has parallel sides and a rounded terminal, and is curved over above the plate, towards a surface which appears to be gilded. This would have engaged in the spur terminal. The other tapers to a point and is bent the other way, across the plate, so that the object is S-shaped in side view. This would have held the spur leather.
Several similar items (including a gilded copper-alloy example) are illustrated in Ellis in Clark (ed) 1995, p. 148-149, esp. no. 369. They were in use from the 13th century into the post-medieval period.
The object is corroded and has a pitted green patina. It is 32mm long and 33mm wide in total. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1200
1650 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Wendy Scott | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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