https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/spurs-including-rowels-and-hook-attachments.html https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/spurs-including-rowels-and-hook-attachments/prick-spur-fragment-57415.html Wed, 24 May 2023 10:50:13 GMT Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments  

Description:		A cast copper-alloy object tentatively identified as the neck and goad only of a medieval prick spur. The goad is pyramidal with a sub-square, slightly convex base. The neck is of irregular cross-section and bent through nearly 90 degrees midway along its length. Cf. PAS: SOM-127118
Category:		Medieval, Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments
Category:		Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/spurs-including-rowels-and-hook-attachments/spur-rowel-56714.html Wed, 23 Mar 2022 03:08:05 GMT Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments  

Description:		A very large copper-alloy spur rowel of the late medieval period. It has twenty oval-section points, joined for approximately one third of their total length. Four points are now incomplete. The remaining points remain very sharp. The central hole is teardrop shaped (see also UKDFD 51043), possibly to prevent the rowel spinning.
Category:		Medieval, Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments
Category:		Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/spurs-including-rowels-and-hook-attachments/spur-rowel-56326.html Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:58:41 GMT Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments  

Description:		A copper-alloy spur rowel with twelve oval-section points joined for half their length. The precise dating of detached rowels of this type is problematic.
Category:		Medieval, Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments
Category:		Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/spurs-including-rowels-and-hook-attachments/spur-attachment-55103.html Sat, 21 Mar 2020 15:53:21 GMT Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments  

Description:		A copper-alloy object, tentatively identified as a fitting for attaching leathers to a spur terminal. It is in the form of a plain oval plate with a rearward-facing hook extending from one end. This identification is based on the assumption that a second hook, now missing, extended from the opposite end and curled in the opposite direction such that the complete object was S-shaped when viewed from the side. See also UKDFD 54128,  UKDFD 51762, PAS: SOMDOR-B14012, NMS-8D7475 and SWYOR-AC6924.
Category:		Medieval, Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments
Category:		Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/spurs-including-rowels-and-hook-attachments/spur-attachment-54128.html Thu, 27 Dec 2018 17:36:32 GMT Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments  

Description:		A copper-alloy object, tentatively identified as a fitting for attaching leathers to a spur terminal. It is in the form of a plain oval plate with a rearward-facing hook extending from one end. Both the plate and the hook are distorted.  This identification is based on the assumption that a second hook, now missing, extended from the opposite end and curled in the opposite direction such that the complete object was S-shaped when viewed from the side. See also UKDFD 51762, PAS: SOMDOR-B14012, NMS-8D7475 and SWYOR-AC6924.
Category:		Medieval, Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments
Category:		Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/spurs-including-rowels-and-hook-attachments/spur-attachment-54090.html Fri, 07 Dec 2018 23:08:43 GMT Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments  

Description:		A copper-alloy fitting for attaching leathers to a spur terminal. It is in the form of a rectangular plate with a long rearward-facing hook extending from one end. The front of the plate is crudely decorated with an incised saltire, two lateral notches and two transverse grooves.  It would seem from datable finds that one-piece double-hooked spur attachments (e.g. UKDFD 47255) were in general use until about 1400, after which they were progressively superseded by the single-hooked type with a separately attached stud (e.g. UKDFD 47030). From the images alone, it is unclear whether the present example is of the former or latter type. No fracture surface is apparent on the edge of the plate, but the central area of the back is obscured by the existing hook.
Category:		Medieval, Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments
Category:		Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/spurs-including-rowels-and-hook-attachments/spur-attachment-51762.html Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments  

Description:		A copper-alloy fitting for attaching leathers to a spur terminal. It is in the form of an S-shaped hook with a flat, circular body at the centre. The two examples from the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue cited below are attached to spurs that are dated "15th century" and "possibly late 15th century but probably early 16th century" respectively. The Metal Artefacts of Antiquity example is dated "c.13th - c.16th century". All have square bodies, but are otherwise similar to the present one. See also PAS: NMS-9E6C16 and UKDFD 36644.
Category:		Medieval, Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments
Category:		Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/spurs-including-rowels-and-hook-attachments/spur-attachment-36644.html Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments  

Description:		A copper-alloy fitting for attaching leathers to a spur terminal. It is in the form of an S-shaped hook with a flat, sub-square body at the centre. The two closely similar examples from the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue cited below are attached to spurs that are dated "15th century" and "possibly late 15th century but probably early 16th century" respectively. The Metal Artefacts of Antiquity example is dated "c.13th - c.16th century".
Category:		Medieval, Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments
Category:		Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/spurs-including-rowels-and-hook-attachments/prick-spur-fragment-19895.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments  

Description:		A fragment of a copper-alloy prick spur. It consists of the goad and a short length of each arm. The goad appears to have been of bi-pyramidal form, with an iron insert, which was probably embedded during the moulding process. The tip of the goad has been lost, but the remains of the iron stem are visible, both from the front, and on the inside of the spur. Its purpose was probably to strengthen the neck, the design of which would make it vulnerable to fracture. The arms of the spur and the upper sides of the goad are decorated with incised oblique lines.
Category:		Medieval, Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments
Category:		Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/spurs-including-rowels-and-hook-attachments/prick-spur-fragment-22714.html Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments  

Description:		The neck and goad only of a medieval prick spur. The neck is of sub-square cross-section, locally reinforced at the fractured end, where it joined the heel of the spur. The goad is bi-pyramidal, with slightly incurved sides. Two opposite sides of both neck and goad are decorated with incised lines. Iron residue is present on the fracture surface, possibly indicating an embedded insert (cf. UKDFD 19895).
Category:		Medieval, Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments
Category:		Spurs, including rowels and hook attachments

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