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Description: | An incomplete cast iron prick spur (length: 115mm; width: 97.3mm; thickness: 10.9mm; weight: 37.40g) with a point 8 and terminal Bii classification (see the London Museum Medieval Catalogue). The sides/ arms of the spur are deeply curved (a trend that was popular in the 13th century). Only one terminal remains with a double rivet hole at the end. The other terminal is broken. The sides/ arms become slightly wider near to the neck, with slight damage at two areas where a small area of the arms becomes more narrow. The neck on the spur is 13.3mm long, with a heavy single quadrangular lozenge-shaped goad at the end, which extends to a sharp point. Iron spurs were often plated with tin which protected them from rust and brightened their appearance, but this was usually in the form of a thin coating, so the tin rarely survives. A similar example was found at Upper Thames Street, London and is illustrated in the London Museum Medieval Catalogue, 1940, pages 95, 101 & 102, fig 31, ref no C1219, and has been dated to the late 13th century. | 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
1300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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