spurs afixed yvithout Straps 63 



spurs on this figure are not a pair ; that on the left foot 

 has two equal arms rivetted to a wide heel-piece, which makes 

 a continuation of the jambe, and is hinged on to the solleret 

 on the inside, and kept in position on the outside by a strap 

 over the instep. The solleret is of the broad-toed pattern. 

 An illustration of the spur on the right foot is shown on 

 Plate 36A, Fig. 2. 



In the same museum there is an interesting spur which 

 is also attached without straps but not rivetted, and can 

 easily be removed. It belongs to a German fluted suit of the 

 early part of the sixteenth century, with the broad-toed solleret. 

 The spur, of which an illustration is given on Plate 37, Fig. i, 

 has a straight neck about four inches long fixed to a plate 

 three inches high, and one inch wide at the top and an inch 

 and a half at the bottom. This plate has grooved edges, and 

 is slipped upwards into a corresponding opening in the back of 

 the jambe, and is caught and held in position by a spring catch 

 at the top. The straight neck is round in section and has 

 some incised ornament, and it carries an eight-pointed star 

 rowel two inches in diameter. 



In the Armeria Reale at Turin there is a spur, with the 

 same arrangement as to fastening, attached to a very handsome 

 suit which belonged to Cardinal Ascanio Maria Sforza, and 

 which dates from quite the end of the fifteenth or beginning 

 of the sixteenth century. The spur here is somewhat longer 

 in the neck, since the horse armour is very complete, the 

 horse being entirely covered. The rowel is about the same 

 size — two inches — and has six points. In both these spurs the 



