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Fig. 968. Pryke spurs
(a) Early XIIIth century. London Museum
(b) XIIIth century; with gold enrichments. London Museum
(c) Early XIIIth century; with curious bend in the heel-strap. London Museum
(d) XLIIth century. London Museum
appear to be the period of its fashion and manufacture. It is of iron and bronze gilded, the branches set with precious stones. The bosses on either side are circular and profusely studded with coloured stones surrounding a small antique cameo. The groundwork of this setting is enamelled black—a goldsmith's fashion more suggestive of the period of Louis XIII than of that of Louis XI. We, however, give an illustration of this bit as showing the
