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• Object type: prick spur
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Image	Object Type	Find number	Broadperiod	County	Actions
	Prick spur	NMS-9A6EA0	Roman	Norfolk	xml | csv json
Probable goad of a prick spur: conical spike with a cross-shaped arrangement of four arms at the base, two with round attachment hole near the rounded end, and two incomplete. One of the two extant arms is slightly longer than the other, and with the stub of its counterpart forms a slight curve o...
	Prick spur	NMS-64E344	Roman	Norfolk	xml | csv json
Part of the distorted side of very delicate Romano British prick spur, D-sectioned at the break and thickening to a rectangular sectioned boss with a pair of grooves on both lateral faces. Beyond the boss the section is ovoid as far as a transverse moulding from which springs the flat, rounded te...