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SPUR
Unique ID: SF7445
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Copper-alloy goad from a prick spur. It is pyramidal in shape, springing from a lozengiform base which measures 16 x 13.5 mm from corner to corner. From the centre of the base emerges the circular-section neck, which begins at a diameter of 6 mm but which is split apart for most of its length by iron corrosion. There is a little iron corrosion at the apex of the pyramid too, so there may be an iron bar running right through the goad. This may be all that survives of a copper-alloy coated iron spur, or the goad may have been the only piece made of iron.
Pyramidal goads were in use from the mid 11th century to the end of the 13th century (Ellis 2002, 4).
Class: prick
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1050
Date to: Circa AD 1300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 13.5 mm
Weight: 12.13 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st September 2001
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Fragment
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