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Description: | A fragment of a medieval mace-head, comprising a heavily cast blunt rectangular-sectioned pyramid with the remains of the internal curve and part of the rim of the perforation on the reverse. May be compared with the discussion in Medieval Archaeology. (2005), 334, 336 and 7, fig.5. There are at least two other examples from Norfolk, from Burgh with Tuttington (Norfolk Historic Environment Record number 33592) and Saham Toney (NHER 34101). A broadly similar 'probably medieval' example (with two rows of pyramidal projections) from Lidgate, Suffolk is illustrated in Evans (1881, The Ancient Bronze Objects, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland fig.339) and parallels are known from Central Europe and the Balkans, in particular a number of 13th-15th century examples from Hungary illustrated in Nicolle (1999, Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era 1050-1350, Western Europe and the Crusader States, 317 and 520, no.s 861a-c).
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