Record ID: SF-F6D824
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy possible terminal collar from a cross-staff, possibly late early medieval or medieval in date. Cross-staff heads were described as sword-pommels in the London Museum Medieval catalogue ( Ward and Perkins, p23, fig,2) but they have more recently been identified as cross-staff heads by Simon Bailey (Medieval Archaeology, 1994, 171-5, no 30). They are thought to have an ecclesiastical use, and a date range from the eleventh to fourteenth centuries. It is not known with certainty whether these terminal were postioned at the top or the bottom of the staff…
Created on: Thursday 19th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barking', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-D03FB1
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy staff or sceptre terminal with a hollow openwork body with a rectangular loop at the base. The main body is circular in plan and rectangular in cross-section. Both sides are openwork though only one bears an additional motif in the centre. Unfortunately this motif is too worn to determine what it was. The arrangement of the openwork holes on the motif side create triangular cells around the lower hemisphere. The opening at the base is rectangular and from it extends a square loop. This loop is offset. To either side of the square loop is a futher rectangular loop…
Created on: Monday 7th December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WAW-8A0D21
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
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 triangular openwork. The upper portion of cross-staff is missing, there are four spurs with broken edges which probably originally joined to form a ‘+’ shape. The breaks are not recent as the patina covers the edges. Integral to the base is an integral tubular socket. The socket has a 13.68mm internal diameter. On opposite sides there are two incomplete rivet holes. The damage did not occur recently. The socket is undecorated. The surface of the termina…
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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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
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Record ID: BH-F48C72
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A damaged copper-alloy and lead artefact. Previously, these artefacts were thought to be sword pommels; however, in a recent article in 'Medieval Archaeology' (no. 38, 1994, p. 171-5), Simon Bailey has questioned this interpretation and suggested that they may be terminals from the bases of ecclesiastical cross shafts. This particular piece is very similar to an example from London (London Museum Medieval Catalogue 1967, p. 23, no. 2, described as a sword pommel), and to PAS record number DENO-CC4B34. The decorative styles of other pieces, for example BUC-69D596, suggest a date range o…
Created on: Thursday 17th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1553D1
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and abraded Late Saxon suspension unit or staff terminal consisting of an incomplete integral suspension loop above what remains of a sub-conical socket of roughly circular cross-section. Of three out of originally five triangular apertures in the edge of the socket only one is complete. The lowermost surviving part, below the intact aperture, may be the base or the upper edge of another aperture. Length >37mm. External diameter of suspension loop 15mm. The metal is rough-surfaced and purplish in colour. No good parallel noted. Perhaps 10th or 11th century.
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 9th August 2011
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Record ID: SF-E18EA3
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy terminal from a cross-staff of Early Medieval or Medieval date. Approximately half of the terminal survives but is distorted, most likely due to post-depositional damage. It would probably have been spherical originally and is made of an openwork lattice design composed of a series of joined pentagons with knops at each joint. There would have originally been a collar to accomodate the staff but only a small part of this survives. It measures 42.99mm in length, 32.09mm in width, 23.57mm in thickness and weighs 15.74g.
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

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
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Record ID: BH-FF7655
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy artefact of uncertain date and function. The object is ring-shaped, the outer edge decorated by ten flattened-hemispherical mouldings. The central aperture is sub-pentagonal in plan. The corroded artefact measures 24mm in diameter, 4.9mm thick and weighs 8.6g. No parallel could be found for this piece; however, the style of decoration is typical of the Late Early-Medieval to Medieval periods, as is the brown corrosion product. It is suggested that this may be a collar from a ceremonial Christian staff, possibly used in conjunction with terminals such as BH-F48C72.
Created on: Tuesday 1st November 2011
Last updated: Thursday 7th February 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heydon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-B88FA6
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval cast copper alloy object belonging to a type usually referred to as a staff terminal. The terminal is a hollow sphere with a diameter of 40mm decorated with an arrangement of rounded holes giving the appearance of openwork. The surface is decorated whith roughly cut transverse lines. The shaft or neck, which forms a socket, has no sign of rivets or nails as are seen on other examples.
Created on: Wednesday 13th February 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 26th February 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South of Winslow', grid reference and parish protected.

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: WAW-4ACE62
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy terminal or head from a cross-staff, possibly. The fragment is concave on the interior and convex on the exterior and maybe a fragment of a sub-hexagonal cross staff terminal. It is decorated with lattice-work forming either triangles or lozenges, there is not a complete example to be sure. It the junctions of the frame there is a trefoil knop. The lattice-work forms openwork. The breaks of the lattice are recent. The surface of the fragment has a shiny mid grey patina with small areas of active green corrosion (bronze disease). The fragment measures 20.11mm in len…
Created on: Wednesday 9th January 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2013
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Record ID: NMS-F5B414
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon cast socketed copper alloy staff terminal, pointed polyhedral with an oblique openwork grid with twelve lozenge-shaped openings and a small projecting knop at each intersection (twelve knops) and one on the pointed terminal. The socketed end has a collar with three concentric grooves, pierced by four rivet-holes. Length 57mm. Diam. of socket 16mm. Greatest width (at knops) 28mm. Weighs 36.53g. Similar terminals have been found in Great Walsingham, Norfolk (NHER 28254) and (a fragmentary example) from Combs, Suffolk (SF-E18EA3) and other related examples are discussed in …
Created on: Friday 24th May 2013
Last updated: Monday 15th July 2013
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Record ID: SUR-29A446
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy object belonging to a class usually referred to as a staff terminal. The terminal is spherical with a diameter of 33.11mm and its surface is covered with an arrangement of projecting rounded knobs with rounded holes between. Around the girth the knobs are arranged in two tiers. Around the shaft or neck, which forms a socket, are five round holes, some of which may be intended for rivets or nails. The neck is 20mm in diameter.
Created on: Wednesday 8th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
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Record ID: NMS-E86C93
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Saxon cast socketed copper alloy staff terminal, the socketed end with parts of four probably sub-triangular perforations forming an oblique openwork grid with two surviving small projecting knops at intersections, thickened rim at mouth. Surviving height 29mm. Diam. of socket c.35mm. Weighs 5.70g. Similar terminals have been found in Great Walsingham, Norfolk (NHER 28254) and (a fragmentary example) from Combs, Suffolk (SF-E18EA3) and other related examples are discussed in Bailey, S. 1994 'Two copper-alloy cross-staff heads from Warwickshire' Medieval Archaeology 38…
Created on: Wednesday 16th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 19th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FINCHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-383EBB
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Early Medieval to Medieval (11th to 14th centuries) cross-staff terminal/head or ferrule from an uncertain object: The copper alloy terminal has a truncated conical socket which is circular in section. The socket has a circular rivet hole either side near the rim, which is the widest part of the conical. Where the conical is truncated there is an integral drop shaped blade, which, in profile, tapers to a bulbous knopped terminal. In plan the two faces of the blade has a linear ridge which runs the length of the blade and is curved in section. The surface of the artefact has a…
Created on: Sunday 1st March 2015
Last updated: Thursday 23rd April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Evesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F28FF6
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon or medieval cast copper alloy staff or sceptre terminal. Hollow circular openwork body with a rectangular openwork socket projecting from apex (internal dimensions 18 x 15mm). The socket has a thickened rim and a triangular aperture in each face. One openwork face is decorated with a lion passant to sinister with his head arched over above his back and gripping his tail that is curled up from between his legs. Cast and engraved decoration picks out the mouth, eye, limbs and paws, and emphasises the three prominent curls comprising the mane. A curled tendril passes obliquely…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2008
Last updated: Monday 8th June 2015
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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: LVPL-C6EC87
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy ornamental cross-staff head mount. The spherical head has an openwork design decorated with five surviving knops. One complete sub-oval hole survives with an internal length of 5.11mm and width of 3.93mm. The broken edges are rough and crude. Projecting from the base of the object is an integrally cast hollow cylindrical expanded collar or shaft. This measures 18.62mm in height and is 19.05mm in diameter at its centre. The base of the shaft and where it joins the body of the object thickens forming a circumferential collar. The shaft contains four holes p…
Created on: Tuesday 25th August 2015
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hulme Walfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C1CDA5
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy object, probably the terminal from a staff that has been modified for susbequent re-use perhaps as a weight. The top of the object is missing due to old breaks and it is uncertain whether there was additional metalwork at the base of the object. It is sub-hexagonal in form, slightly asymmetrical, and with open lattice-work decoration. This comprises four distinct oval shaped openwork panels around the sides of the object, with the similar decoration at the top that terminates in old breaks and suggests a similar panel is now missing from the top of the o…
Created on: Friday 5th February 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.