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which were often beautifully ornamented with gold and silver 

 inlay. Two illustrations of these spurs are given on Plate 21, 

 Figs. I and 2. Both are from spurs in the City of London 

 Museum. In one the neck is eight inches long and hexagonal 

 in section, terminating in a rose rowel of six points less than 

 an inch in diameter. There is a strongly marked crest showing 

 incised lines, probably once containing inlay. There is a 

 rectangular buckle rather more than one and a half inches wide, 

 and two strap plates are attached, with portions of leather 

 straps remaining. The other spur, of similar pattern, was 

 found in Whitefriars. The neck is ten and a quarter inches 

 long, and is oval in section. All the other details are very 

 similar to the last. The total length of this spur is close on 

 fourteen inches, and there are signs of its having been inlaid. 



There is another form of long-necked spur, specimens of 

 which are often met with in continental museums, but of 

 which I have only seen one example in England. It is in 

 the Wallace Collection at Hertford House, and forms part 

 of a very handsome equestrian suit, of German manufacture, 

 and is of the latter part of the fifteenth century. 



The spurs are attached by straps to long-toed sollerets, 

 which are cut away in an unusual manner at the back of the 

 heel. The necks are straight, ten inches long, of a narrow 

 lozenge-shaped section, being three-quarters of an inch, the 

 width of the heel-plate, at the heel, and tapering towards the end. 

 The last third of the neck is ornamented with a raised pattern. 

 The spurs have six-pointed brass rowels, and are one and a half 

 inches in diameter. The sides are straight, three-quarters of an 



