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 In the London Museum is a single spur of Saxon times, simple in construction, but enriched with scroll-work in brass and silver inlay. It was found in the Thames at Westminster (Fig. 38).

Xth or XIth century. Found in the Thames, Westminster. London Museum

With this finishes our very rough account of the military accoutrements of the first half of the IXth century, but so vague is the general idea of the armaments of the Anglo-Saxon, or, as we call him, the old Englishman, we can do no better than reproduce one of the cleverly reconstructed figures, the combined work of M. Viollet-le-Duc and Colonel le Clerc, preserved in the upper galleries of the Musée d'Artillerie of Paris, as a very fair illustration of how such warrior thegns would have appeared when in full fighting array (Fig. 39).