Record ID: NLM-979D66
Object type: PRICK SPUR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy prick spur fragment. A short (14mm) collared acorn shaped goad springing from the plano-convex heel of a spur and attached by a basal rivet of diameter 2.2mm which was observed on the inside surface of the heel. The site was flanked by a short projection resembling a fleur de lis form, possibly a devolved animal head, and a shorter opposed lug. The broken ends leading to the spur sides are rounded as if by wear, particularly on one side, which may suggest this object was put to some indeterminate use after breakage. The finder kindly identified this object with reference …
Created on: Thursday 11th June 2015
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-72A674
Object type: PRICK SPUR
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy fragment of a possible prick spur of uncertain date (possibly medieval to post-medieval - AD c.1100-c.1700), missing all but the goad and a length of the shaft connecting it to the back of the spur. Overall, the fragment measures 29.7mm long and 11.0mm in diameter. It weighs 6.11g. The goad is conical with a slightly flattened point. It measures 12.8mm long and 11.0mm in diameter. The shaft is circular in cross-section and measures 17.1mm long and 3.8mm in diameter.
Created on: Tuesday 9th December 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 18th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'The Deverills', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C94D8E
Object type: PRICK SPUR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy Roman spur that consists of a central square plate that has a hole in the centre where an iron prick would have been mounted, this area is now encrusted in iron corrosion. Above this plate is a large rear facing hook, opposite on the base of the plate are two short arms that projects at opposing angles as if to suggest the base of a loop. Arms project either side of the central plate, these are rectangular in cross section with bevelled edges. At the terminal of each arm is a roundel with a pierced centre, both holes are encrusted in iron, a double transverse collar separ…
Created on: Monday 1st December 2014
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tytherington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-595916
Object type: PRICK SPUR
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval Anglo-Scandinavian copper alloy prick spur fragment, in fair condition. The fragment consists of about half of the arms, which have a sub triangular section and have rounded protrusions on the outer surface, two are present on one side and one on the other. The neck (protruding section) consists of a short shaft with a sub triangular section with a small rounded protrusion on its upper surface. This terminates in a goad (point) with a bi-pyramidal expansion (square in section). It is very similar to an iron spur found at the Coppergate excavations in York, which is…
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 26th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C7E8A3
Object type: PRICK SPUR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British prick-spur (Shortt's Class 1), incomplete, broken D-sectioned sides, the better surviving one of which is beginning to turn back on the outside, originally to form one of two loops, slight collar at conical pointed goad (point missing, length of collared neck and goad >14mm). Width >37mm. Cf. an iron example and discussion of the two mains classes in Antiquairies' Journal 39 (1959), pp61-76, at 65, fig.4. 1st century AD.
Created on: Wednesday 9th April 2008
Last updated: Saturday 6th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thwaite/Broome', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-E3A7E1
Object type: PRICK SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a copper alloy prick spur. The spur has plain, relatively straight sides of oval section, widening to D-shape in section towards the goad. This is a small flat triangular point rising directly from the centre of the spur. The dating of this spur is uncertain. Prick spurs were common in the early part of the Medieval period (up to the thirteenth century) but tended to have goads with necks and curved sides, unlike this one. They were superseded by rowel spurs but were popular again for a brief period in the seventeenth century, with straight sides. An Early Medieval date is …
Created on: Friday 5th January 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Brickhill', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF2744
Object type: PRICK SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tapering cylindrical bar of copper alloy; swelling pointed tip, shaft sub-hexagonal in section behind tip, then narrows to a length of circular section up to a breakage point. Possibly the prick from a spur but rather long and narrow.
Created on: Friday 16th June 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK RAMSHOLT', grid reference and parish protected.