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Description: | 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.
Similar objects are 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-shaft 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 but later medieval illustrations show the use of sceptres with lower terminals. Further examples can be seen on the PAS database at BUC-5F9404 and BH-B64636 and SF-A69D93. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1000
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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