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Description: | Copper alloy openwork finial or ferrule from a staff, probably dating to the 11th-14th centuries.It consists of a short 16mm diameter open terminal with two grooves around the edge and two rivet holes, one of whichis obscured by damage to the edge.The tube extends from an openwork structure. The object as a whole is 56mm high and terminates in a globular knop. It has four triangular-shaped faces, all four of which meet at the top of the finial and are topped with a rounded knop 6.5mm in diameter. Each side has 5 shaped holes: the upper two are triangular, the lower two are rectangular apart from a rounded inner corner and the single bottom hole is U-shaped with a pointed upper edge. A circular knop extends from the corners of the triangular body, at the point of its join with the circular tube, making the object 20mm wide at this widest point.A similar example on the database can be seen at WILT-8E4F97.Geoff Egan (MoLAS/ PAS) has suggested that it may have been on the opposite end of a staff from a larger, but 'matching', finial. Nick Griffiths (Salisbury Museum) has commented on the similarity in shape to church towers of the 12th century and points out staff finials of similar size are still to be found in churches today. Some circular openwork staff-heads are discussed by Simon Bailey in Medieval Archaeology, Vol. XXXVIII, 1994, page 171.
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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