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Description: | A copper alloy hooked spur fitting. This is still attached to a trefoil-looped spur terminal fragment (13mm x 17mm). The fitting has a convex, disc-shaped body with a ridge at either end. One end extends to a flat, pointed knop with a central rivet. The other has a hook curving round to the reverse (hooked through the trefoil loop). One of the loops of the trefoil terminal is incompletely closed.
Similar fittings can be seen attached to Medieval rowel spurs in the Museum of London's collections. They would have allowed the attachment of a strap to secure the spur around the foot (Ellis in Clark 1995, 141-2, no. 341). | 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: | 1400
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rosalind Tyrrell | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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