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Fig. 970. Rowel spurs
(a) Gilded bronze, late XIVth century. Found in London. London Museum
(b) Gilded iron, late XIVth century. Found in London. London Museum
(c) Bronze, early XVth century. Found near Florence. Collection: Author
bronze, the neck and heel straps enriched with a chequered design in black and white champlevé enamel, to the heraldic significance of which we have referred to in a note on page 206. In that small elongation of the heel strap which appears immediately above the necks, a customary feature in the late XIVth century form of spurs, they have a trefoil architectural design delicately engraved. The pair—which are in splendid, almost pristine, condition—became parted in the middle of the XIXth century. One spur, after sundry peregrinations, became, for a few hundred francs, the property of Mr. Riggs, having been sold with one portion of a property at a country sale
