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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy medieval prick spur, missing the majority of one arm. The other arm is bent. The bent length of the object is 68.8mm and it is 35.2mm wide. It weighs 18.5g.The complete arm (and the surviving stump - 10mm long - of the other has incised line decoration. Three transverse lines flank the goad (or 'prick') and a V shape on its side, point towards the goad, is next. This is bound on the open side by a transverse line. V and transverse lines continue right to the end, where the last V is flanked by a double transverse line by the point. The arm ends in a figure of eight terminal (8.5mm long) which has remains of iron corrosion.The arms are D-shaped in section, being flat on the inside edge, and the surviving example narrows from 7.7x5.2mm at the goad, to 5x3.5mm by the terminal.The goad itself is pyramidal (square in section and 8.2x8.2mm, 9mm long) on a lozengiform-sectioned stem (7x7.2mm to 6x6mm). It projects 15mm from the arms of the spur.The inside measurement at the round of the spur would have been c.50mm.Cf a similar spur in iron from Icklingham, Suffolk: SF-1C3AC3. This dates to the 12th/ 13th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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