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: IOW-680721
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Medieval Limoges-style enamelled and gilded copper-alloy object, possibly a processional cross staff terminal or an altar piece . The object is generally pentagonal; the top is surmounted by an orb, diameter 10.2mm, with a plain cross above which is flat on both faces. The sides flare evenly outwards and downwards from the orb to almost mid-way down its length, for a distance of about 35.0mm. From this point downwards the sides are almost vertical, and measure c. 37.5mm in length (they taper very slightly). The bottom is horizontal, with a width of 29.2mm. At the rear, …
Created on: Saturday 12th February 2011
Last updated: Saturday 5th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-3FAFE1
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy terminal, possibly from a staff or cane or possibly a handle. The terminal is circular in shape and has been roughly made; there are several linear scores around the neck of the object that maybe crude decoration or a product of the manufacturing method. The neck of the terminal is sub-circular in cross section and has a tapering terminal within, presumably for mounting. There is a small circular hole on the peak of the terminal and although this may have held a small rivet, it appears more likely that it was formed during casting. Medieval c. 14th-17th century?
Created on: Friday 4th November 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ardley area', grid reference and parish protected.

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: 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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickham Bishops area', 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
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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: NMS-0A31F3
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy staff terminal or ferrule, cylindrical with scalloped (and damaged) lower edge, two opposed attachment holes in the side, integral, wider, cap-like and slightly convex top, in the centre of which an incomplete and probably annular mount is secured by an integral rivet. The mount is now loose, possibly because a washer between its base and he top has been lost. The top is engraved with an edge-to-edge single line cross and with four chevrons biscented by each arm. No good parallel noted. Length / height (excluding mount) 19mm. Diameter at top 32.5mm, diameter…
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 31st 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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-CFADE2
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy staff terminal dating from the medieval period, that is c. AD1100-1300. The terminal is nearly complete with only some of the globular body missing. The collar is also slightly damaged. The staff terminal is composed of a cylindrical collar with four rivet holes and a moulding around the edge and a large globular head which is solid cast with dozens of small moulded knops all over its surface. There is no openwork decoration which would be more typical for staff terminals such as this. The ornamental knops are simply aligned in untidy rows around the globular head; t…
Created on: Friday 9th November 2012
Last updated: Thursday 13th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nether Poppleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C89F05
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman cast copper alloy possible staff terminal, collared hollow circular-sectioned shank with solid discoidal terminal (diameter 30mm) with transversly set heavily cast oval-sectioned oval loop with both ends projecting outward to form a slight platform. Surviving length of socket 24.5mm. Total surviving length 44mm. Weighs 51.36g.
Created on: Monday 2nd December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2014
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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-829F22
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Early Medieval to Medieval (11th to 12th centuries) cross-staff terminal or head: The copper alloy terminal is an elongated trapezoidal which tapers slightly and has a hexagonal sectioned knop on the upper narrow edge. The mid-section has a trapezoidal void in the centre. The lower section is an incomplete hexagonal cylindrical socket with an incomplete spur or protrusion on the outer, opposite edges. The socket has a 15mm internal diameter. The surface of the terminal has a dark brown patina. The terminal is 44.15mm in length, 36.72mm wide and 21.09mm thick. It weighs 41.3g.…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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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: SF-E85A26
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy object, probably a fragment from the handle of a staff or sceptre. A short length from one side of the cylindrical object survives, terminating at both ends in old breaks. The outer surface has multiple transverse ribs, with a single incised transverse groove visible at the top in the old breaks, and with double transverse grooves at the old breaks to the base of the object. It measures 41.86mm in length, 23.51mm in width, 15.07mm in thickness (incomplete; 5.00mm in thickness at wall), and 30.87g in weight. This is probably a fragment from a cylindri…
Created on: Thursday 8th January 2015
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ousden', 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: KENT-2AF383
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy openwork staff or sceptre terminal of Early-Medieval to Medieval date. It is circular in plan and rectangular in cross section. Both sides of the terminal are decorated with openwork though one side has been mostly broken away by an old break. The complete side is decorated with a quadruped animal figure, possibly a deer with antlers. The animal has its front legs raised and mouth open. Cast and engraved decoration picks out the mouth, eye, ear and legs. There is a raised pellet in the center. The design on the side which has been broken away appears to have been o…
Created on: Thursday 2nd May 2013
Last updated: Monday 29th June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Farleigh', grid reference and parish protected.