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Description: | 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 that extends down onto the side of the main body. The terminals of these two arms are gently curved and rounded, perhaps representing a beasts-head.Though a number of similar staff terminals are known fron England (cf Bailey 1994: 171-173), this example has an offset loop rather than a rectangular socket. This may suggest that it was attached differently to the staff, perhaps allowing the head to swivel. This may be significant if the object was used, for example, as an incense censer.A similar object from Ringland, Norfolk is recorded on this database as NMS-F28FF6 (PAS Annual Report 2007, p115, no. 221).
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