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Description: | Post medieval copper alloy fragment of spur, consisting of part of the arm and terminating in a double-loop for attachment. The break is ancient and the fragment is 69mm in length and 9mm wide at the break. It is max.3mm thick and weighs 9.09g. The attachment loop terminal is heart shaped. Between this and the arm of the spur is a 11x2mm rectangular area. On its other side the arm is 5mm wide. The arm is D-shaped in section. The arm is decorated with stamped circles, three small and a larger 'ring-and-dot' type before two curved lines (- and )- shaped with a stamped cirlce inside the curve of each. Above are V shaped grooves and a cluster of four stamped cirlces before the break. 17th/ 18th century in date. It would have had iron rivets to hold to the leathyer of the boot. Tooling marks are visible on both surfaces. | 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: | 1601
1800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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