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Record ID: NLM2712
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lattice work head of a staff, fragment, with blobs accentuating the junctions.
Created on: Thursday 7th October 1999
Last updated: Wednesday 20th December 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Isle of Axholme', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WMID4681
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Openwork staff terminal, sub-spherical in shape with a knop at the upper apex and at the base a circular collar. The lower edge of the collar has a decorative ridge. Either side of the collar is a circular hole, presumably for a rivet. The terminal is decorated with a series of lozenge-shaped open-work holes, with sub-circular domed bosses in between. Around the upper knop are four circular open-work holes. The surface of the pommel has traces of a mid green patina, however, the majority of the surface is corroded, with patches of red copper corrosion.
These objects were once though…
Created on: Wednesday 1st May 2002
Last updated: Thursday 27th June 2013
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: HAMP3422
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy spherical openwork terminal from a staff. Four beaded bands radiate from a globular knop at the top, and extend to the base. Each band is made up of two parallel rows of beading, and has a small globular knop at the centre from which similar horizontal bands emerge to produce eight panels. All of these panels are filled with triangular and sub-triangular openwork motifs. At the base is a cylindrical socket with two circular attachment holes; the socket has an undecorated raised collar at the top and a similar collar decorated with transverse grooves at the base.
Th…
Created on: Sunday 23rd March 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Record ID: BUC-69D596
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy head from a staff. The object is hollow, and circular with a narrow rectangular-section socket. The main circular faces have openwork designs of, on one side, two crouching felines facing central plant scrolls and, on the other, two birds facing outwards but looking back at a central feature, with scrolls of foliage. The sides have sinuous, plant patterns. The designs are rather worn and difficult to identify. The socket that took the staff has a thickened rim around its open edge, and undecorated side faces. Internal traces of wood impressions have been preserved by the …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 8th August 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Billington', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WMID-20EEE6
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy ornamental cross-staff head mount (length: 57.8mm; width: 35.5mm; thickness of metal: 5.5mm, although thickness does vary; weight: 80.17g). The cuboid head consists of a latticed openwork design on all four sides as well as the top which reaches upwards to form a pyramid. The openwork seems to resemble a floral decoration on each of the four sides, with four petals forming a sub-square face with slightly protruding knobs at each of the four corners as well as one in the centre. Outside this central decoration, on each of the four main faces, there are further ope…
Created on: Thursday 5th August 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BH-B64636
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy finial which, it has been suggested (see ref 1), would originally have been attached to the base of a cross-staff of 11th-century date. The body of the object is a latticed sphere measuring 36.5mm in diameter and comprising a series of roughly lozenge-shaped holes which increase slightly in size from top to bottom. At each of the four points of each lozenge is a sub-circular raised knob. These also increase in size from top to bottom. The bottom of the body is slightly flattened and has four sub-triangular holes around one slightly damaged triangular hole. The objec…
Created on: Thursday 12th August 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Sharnbrook', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DENO-CC4B34
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy hollow cast pierced openwork object, flattened circular head, with projecting rectangular socket. Each surface of the circular head face bears the same motif of a central equal-armed cross with pierced quarters within a circle, surrounded by a ring of twelve triangular piercings. There are fourteen triangular piercings around the edge of the object. Some of the piercings are roughly finished, and one appears to have been formed by punching out three small circles of metal. The lattice of metal is covered in decorative faux studs - "faux" because they appear to have been c…
Created on: Friday 13th August 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: WAW-AD4967
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The object is a cross staff head or terminal, made from cast copper alloy. In plan it is an elongated three-dimentional sub-lozenge. However the lower point is expanded forming an integral cylindrical collar. This collar has a portion missing. On the opposite edge there is a circular rivet hole.
The body of the cross staff forms a frame with openwork sides. Along each edge there are three moulded decorative knops. The lower two knops are trefoil in plan and domed in profile. The upper knops are just circular and domes. The upper terminal of the cross-staff head terminates with a q…
Created on: Friday 17th September 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2013
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Record ID: SOMDOR-AF3CC7
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy 'staff terminal'. It is an open work circular prism with an interlace design on both faces and criss-cross around the sides. Around the edge of both faces are sub-circular projections (like rivet heads). At one edge is a projecting rectangular sectioned opening with a thick rim and a triangular attachment hole in each of the four sides. The interlace is decorated with two parallel incised lines following the line of the design. The form of the opening is decorated with crude criss-cross incised lines.
Its dimensions are 54.24mm x 41.10mm x 20.98mm. Weight 83.12g
Created on: Friday 17th September 2004
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2018
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Record ID: BUC-5F9404
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hollow copper alloy terminal in the form of a decorated lattice-work knob with a tubular socket. The lattice is made with 5mm wide strips with a row of flattened pellets of the same metal attached along the length. The top of the knob is finished with a larger domed pellet. The socket has a rolled over rim and four holes, 4.70mm in diameter.
Although these objects were once thought of as sword pommels (e.g. London Museum Medieval Catalogue, fig 2 no. 2), since 1994 they have been identified as heads from staffs (Bailey in Medieval Archaeology no. 38, 1994, 171-5). Bailey illustrates…
Created on: Tuesday 26th July 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Catton Hall', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-3792B2
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy object dated from the Medieval to Post-Medieval era. It is an ecclesiastical mount intended to decorate a staff or similar. It has a circular attachment collar (15mm diameter) with 4 drilled holes set at equal distances. There is a circumventing double line decoration above and below the drilled holes on the collar. The artefact takes the form of an inverted skirt from the collar and widens to an open top. There is a ring of 6 circular knops each divided by rectangular openwork just above the collar. Above each rectangular hole there is another ring of 6 circular kno…
Created on: Friday 3rd February 2006
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2016
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This findspot is known as 'Lawshall', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LEIC-EC98E4
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy mount, 44mm long and 34mm wide. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 27.75grams. It consists of a short circular shaft C. 20mm long and 15mm in diameter. Above this is an area of openwork decoration which is reminiscent of a mace head. It is formed of squares which are decorated with cut out greek crosses. Originally there would be five of these squares, one is now missing, each one is aligned so that it rests one of its points on the edge of the shaft. With the fifth placed on the top of the object, joining the others together. The gaps…
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd October 2018
No spatial data available.
Record ID: SUSS-3C8EA4
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy openwork object, a staff or sceptre terminal, holy water sprinkler (known as a mace). The object is a dodecahedron, i.e. it has twelve diamond shaped facets. The object is hollow and square in plan. The top four facets are the largest. They have been arranged to form a point. Two of the four facets are openwork crosses; the other two have an openwork branched design. Below these, four smaller diamonds are arranged laterally. Each of these has the same openwork cross design. Below this, a further four diamonds, again with openwork crosses, are arranged aroun…
Created on: Friday 24th March 2006
Last updated: Saturday 8th June 2013
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This findspot is known as 'Wickham Bishops area', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-A69D93
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
a medieval copper alloy terminal or head from a cross-staff. It is in the form of a decorated lattice-work knob with a tubular socket. The lattice is made with strips 3.25mm wide. The terminal is hexagonal, with each face having a central protruding pellet at the centre of a six-pointed star. The top of the terminal has a six-sided open-wok shape with a cental domed pellet.
At the base of the lattice-work there is a collar above the socket which is plain except for four holes evenly spaced around it, each 4mm in diameter. The socket finishes with a rolled over rim, and has an interna…
Created on: Monday 10th April 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 29th January 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Great Barton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WAW-8E2FA3
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy terminal or head from a cross-staff. It is in the form of a sub-hexagonal, decorated with lattice-work forming triangles with a trefoil knop at each junction. The lattice-work forms openwork. Integral to the base is an integral tubular socket. The socket has a 12.16mm internal diameter. It is decorated with two linear parallel grooves. The socket has two rivet holes, one on either side. Both the rivet holes have remains of an iron rivet. The surface of the terminal has a light green/grey coloured patina. Some of the knops are slightly abraded or corroded. The termin…
Created on: Friday 21st April 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: WILT-8E4F97
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy openwork finial or ferrule from a staff, probably dating to the 11th/12th-14th century.
It consists of a 12mm diameter (internal 9.5mm) and slightly squashed tube, open at both ends, with an intact iron rivet running through it just above a crude incised line flanking the external end.
The tube extends from a faceted openwork structure 42mm high. It has four diamond-shaped faces with one point stretched, all four of which meet at the top of the finial and are topped with a rounded knop 5mm in diameter. The opposite point of each diamond also has a rounded knop, c. 3.5mm…
Created on: Friday 21st April 2006
Last updated: Thursday 13th December 2012
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: LIN-0D6053
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible copper alloy staff fitting or knife/pointer handle. The object is a cylinder with a rounded collar in the centre. The upper terminal is damaged, but appears to have patches of the original perimeter. There is a small rivet hole in the side. The lower terminal is a also damaged but would have been zig-zagged. The object is decorated longitudinally with bands of incised lines. Between each band is a wavey rouletted line. The object bears some similarity to a copper alloy mace head with zig-zagged terminal from Gotland (Thunmark-Nylen, 1998, Tafel 264.3); also compare the very s…
Created on: Friday 21st July 2006
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2019
No spatial data available.
Record ID: SF-E1DB04
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy late early medieval or medieval terminal from a cross-staff, 11th-12th century in date. Under half of the terminal now survives and it is slightly distorted, it is most likely to have been spherical originally, it now measures 29.5mm by 34.16mm in size and 15.07mm in thickness. It has openwork lattice decoration the suriving face has a cruciform design formed of four triangular holes around a central rounded knob, the sides have smaller lozenge shapes with smaller rounded knobs between these. There would have originally been a collar to accomodate the staff.…
Created on: Monday 31st July 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Finningham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BERK-189B87
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval (Anglo Saxon) copper alloy spherical openwork decorative fitting (11th century). Kevin Leahy (Finds Advisor, PAS) states that these objects appear to be too fragile to be sword pommels and, as far as he is aware, no Medieval sword has ever been found or depicted with a pommel like this. It has been suggested that they were staff mounts but again this is uncertain. The object is a hollow sphere with regular lozenge-shaped perforations creating openwork decoration. At each point of the lozenges there is a raised pellet. At the peak there is an equal armed cross with a …
Created on: Tuesday 15th August 2006
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Wytham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CAM-64F318
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy ornamental cross-staff head mount possibly dating to the eleventh or twelfth century AD. The spherical head possesses an openwork design comprising three joined lozenges. Each lozenge is divided into four triangles with a cross. At each apex on the staff head mount, there is a spherical knop. At one end of the object, there extends a circular section collar. The collar is damaged but four circular section perforations are visible. These perforations will have been used for rivets to fix the head onto a staff. The staff measures 46mm in length. The spherical openwork…
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 14th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'West Wratting', grid reference and parish protected.
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