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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy spur, in two parts, with one attachment terminal having broken off in antiquity but still surviving with the find. The shank with the terminal still intact is bent inwards and would have originally been straight in order to attach to the heel of a boot. The shanks are D-shaped in section and taper towards the bifid terminals, which are 15 mm in height, and widen to 19 mm in height where they meet the neck of the rowel box. The rowel box then curves downwards and is ovate in plan and crescentic in profile, with a 21 mm long and 5 mm wide rowel slot, but missing its rowel. The iron pin, which is 2 mm in diameter, to hold the rowel is still intact within the box holes and the iron pins, which are 3 mm in diameter, also survive in the bifid terminals where there is iron corrosion product encrusted in the surface. The original surface of the spur as a whole is quite corroded and missing so that it is unclear if there was originally any decoration.Read (1988) illustrates a similar spur with a curved rowel box on page 156, no.1052, which is dated from c.1600-1675.Bailey (2002) illustrates a similar spur with a curved rowel box on page 36, fig.17, which is dated from the 17th century.Egan (2005) illustrates a similar spur with a bulbous rowel box with a curved neck on page 184, fig.170, no.1055, which is dated from c.1675-1700.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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