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Description: | Medieval copper alloy hollow-cast knobbed mace head of 11th to 14th century dateThe mace-head appears to be complete (with a height of 39.7mm and a weight of 194.0g). There does not appear to have been a collar or shaft extending from the base and there is no perforation for an attachment rivet on the mace. The shaft-hole perforation is sub-circular (with a diameter at the base of 13.7mm - 16.0mm and a diameter at the apex of 17.2mm -18.7mm). The overall form of the mace head is slightly oval (with maximum dimensions of 50mm x 45.7mm). The knobs are arranged in three rows, with four triangular sectioned rows at the top and bottom and four lozenge-sectioned knobs at the centre. The knobs on the top row are smaller and two opposing knobs are particularly small. There is some burring of the knobs on the middle and bottom rows, possibly through impacting. The mace-head has a pale to dark green patina with peripheral areas of pale green corrosion.Some nineteen mace-heads have now been recorded with PAS with a distribution centred on Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Geake (2005; p 334-7) lists a further ten English examples recorded in the archaeological literature, generally with a southern English distribution. In Wales, the excavations at Dryslwyn Castle, Carmarthenshire recovered a bronze mace-head from a mid to late 13th century latrine (Caple, 2007, p 38) . The author is unaware of any further examples, suggesting that this example is only the second known example from Wales.
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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