Record ID: SF-7C15F3
Object type: SCEPTRE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Copper alloy terminal knob possibly from the handle of a mace or sceptre broadly comparable to the finds from Waldingfield, SF-427411, Willingham Fen, Cambridgeshire, and from Wanborough Roman temple, Surrey, see R. Hobbs, Treasure - Finding Our Past (British Museum 2003, 142-144 and Fig 110 p 145; see also M. Henig, Religion in Roman Britain (Batsford 1984), 136-141 and Plate 62 (p 140). It is therefore perhaps most likely to be Roman in date. The terminal is hollow with a central circular hole through it, it is a rounded knob at its end and this tapers into a cylindrical sha…
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-427411
Object type: SCEPTRE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy terminal knob and part of tubular metal sleeve from the handle of a mace or sceptre comparable to the finds from Willingham Fen, Cambridgeshire, and from Wanborough Roman temple, Surrey. The sleeve has girdling ribs or mouldings at intervals along it, with smooth sections between, this fragment representing only the first tier of that ornament. The diameter of the bronze sleeve was 15.2mm, and that of the terminal boss 23.6mm, its depth 13.1mm. The surviving length of sleeve not including the boss is 18.3mm and the overall length is 31.8mm. The object has a heavy and shiny…
Created on: Wednesday 8th October 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Waldingfield', grid reference and parish protected.