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Description: | 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.These objects were once thought to be sword pommels (LMMC type VI) but more recently were identified as terminals from staffs, perhaps for ecclesiastical use (Bailey 1994). They date from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It measures 56 mm in length, 47.5 mm in diameter and 18 mm at the socket.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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