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-A729E3
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Roman bird mount, probably an eagle, possibly a raven or crow. The style of the eagle is quite stylised and is stood upright, with its wings folded in and legs slightly splayed forward. The back of the bird forms an oval platform with fine cross-hatching in a central panel, and fine grooves continue on the side of the neck. The head is moulded and has a thick hooked beak and the eyes are slightly bulbous. The underside of the bird is hollow and has traces of iron forming a circular platform. The surface of the mount has an incomplete and slightly pitted heavy …
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2010
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2011
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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
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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: GLO-66B0BE
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy ornamental cross-staff head mount. The mount is pyramid shaped with an openwork design of a series of interlocking triangles with knops at each junction. The pattern comprises of a knop at the apex of the mount, below which are four upright openwork triangles; below this are for upright triangles interspersed with four inverted triangles. Finally at the base extending down from each corner is a small truncated arm which suggests the latticework frame continues further but is now truncated. Description taken from WMID-20EEE6 Similar examples have been found, mo…
Created on: Wednesday 13th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 19th January 2016
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