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Description: | The corroded and bent cast copper-alloy terminal of a post-medieval spur (c. 17th century). The spur has an offset looped terminal, broadly parallel to the arm and attached to it by a diagonal section set at a 45 degree angle to the arm/loop. The whole has a rectangular in cross-section with rounded corners. The loop is formed of what appear to be three wedge shaped segments with rounded wide ends, but what is in fact in single terminal. The outer wedge is set upside down compared to the others; the wedges are delineated by grooves on the upper surface. Each wedge is perforated; the outer hole is filled with iron corrosion product from a stud, with further traces near the other holes. The object narrows slightly from the loop to the diagonal linking element (W.: 7.1mm), and the two are delineated by a transverse groove on the upper surface. As this element curves into the main arm there is a diagonal groove parallel to that of the nearest wedge shaped segment. Shortly after there is a pair of transverse grooves. The spur has a red-brown colour but is largely covered in mid-green and off-white corrosion product. A plain spur of similar form can be found illustrated in Read (1988, 157; ref. 1061).
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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