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- Spur
- Iron
- L. max ca. 15 cm. Bowed stirrup piece, l. ca. 7.5 cm., w. max. 9.4 cm., th. 6 mm; its terminal projections,D 12 mm, th. 4 mm. Attachment shaft, th. 9 x 9 mm. below, widening to 12 mm.
- The main section of a spur of middle to late medieval type, sometimes called a prick spur - a U-shaped section to encicle the heel, and a shaft projecting from the center of the U to make the spur proper. From each end of the U there projects at a right angle to the arm, at an oblique angle, a little round flange pierced with an attachment hole, either for a small attachment to which the strap securing the spur on the foot would have been anchored, or else, making the attachment holes themselves for that tie.
- Contour good, surface encrusted and rusted. Upper shaft, broken away on one of its upper forked section, but the other side preserves its original end, circle only partly broken. Corrosion has infilled the space between the forks of the upper shaft, and the holes of the lower flanges.