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with the " spur " or " prong-shaped " objects in the Dublin Museum, 

 which are supposed to have been intended for the decoration of 



(No. 296.) Prongr-shaped implement from Barrow at Wilsford. \ 



liorses' heads. In fact no other known object appears to be at all 

 like it. It was certainly intended to be fastened to a handle by 

 the tang which projects from the central pierced plate. This tang 

 is now broken oil' across the line of three rivet holes, and tlie 

 rounded end of it (here indicated by a dotted line), shown in 

 Hoare's engraving/ is unfortunately lost, together with the pin or 

 rivet whicli he also shows as still occupying the central hole. Tliis 

 rivet appears to have been a long one without head, like the rivet 

 of a Spearhead, and argues a rouiul wooden handle and possibly a 

 ferruh^ of bron/e. lloare shows a detaclicd fragment of the end 

 of the righl-liand line, also now missing. On the other hand the 

 ornamentation of engraNcd hatched vaiidj'kes that surroiuhls t lie 

 opening in the centre on both sides of tlio implement is not shown 



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