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Description: | Copper alloy prick spur with a high tin content and tin enriched surface giving silvered appearance. It is a 'rivet-spur' type with a heel-plate containing the corroded remains of iron goad. The point is missing, and it has a slightly domed head on reverse. The object is rectangular-sectioned with a broken hook above and bifurcated decorative lobe below. The sides are chamfered and triangular sectioned, with rectangular sectioned grooved transverse bar at both juntions, with flat-sectioned perforated discoidal terminals, one of which retains the corroded remains of a large circular head of a rivet on the reverse. Measuring 61 x at leaast 15mm. Cf. Shortt (1959) Antiq. J. 61 - 76, fig.3, nos.7 and 10. 3rd - 4th century.
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