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Description: | [One of] Four Fire-steels (lengths 5 to 3 3/8 ins) of identical type; wedge-shaped; round at broad (top) end, pointed at bottom; broad end pierced, the hole being of size and shape to receive the third and fourth fingers when the steel is grasped in the palm of the hand; one bears traces of slight decoration in form of ring-and-dot marking and other simple designs, lightly stamped in; said to be used locally, both as steels and as goads, and known by a name equivalent to "donkey-pricker". Hungary. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Source: | Science Museum | Identifier: | 1937-682/360 | Go to resource |
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