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Description: | An almost complete, although very bent, medieval gilded spur.Blanche Ellis comments:This spur dates from the second half of the fourteenth century. The neck and sides of the spur are drawn together at their thickest part in a gently pointed junction behind the wearer's heel. From this the sides originally projected downward and must originally have curved or bent under the wearer's ankle. The neck is almost entirely divided by the rowel box with its fairly large six-point star rowel. It is comparable with the spur no.333 in John Clark (ed) The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, which is like the spurs on the Dyrham brass of Sir Morys Russell (d.1401). The sides of this spur are now so badly distorted that one cannot be sure of their original form but the similar strong bend toward the front of each of them may possibly suggest that they once plunged strongly downward from their junction then turned up at their front ends rising towards their terminals; if that was the case it would suggest a date nearer the middle of the fourteenth century but one cannot now be sure. What is interesting is the amount of wear on the inner ring on the surviving figure-8 terminal showing that the spur must have had a lot of use.
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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