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Medieval staff terminal
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All rights reserved, Ros Tyrrell, 2013-02-15 11:54:38
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Medieval staff terminal
Description
English: An early medieval cast copper alloy object belonging to a type usually referred to as a staff terminal. The terminal is a hollow sphere with a diameter of 40mm decorated with an arrangement of rounded holes giving the appearance of openwork. The surface is decorated whith roughly cut transverse lines. The shaft or neck, which forms a socket, has no sign of rivets or nails as are seen on other examples.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Buckinghamshire
Date between 1000 and 1200
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1000-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 544653
Old ref: PUBLIC-B88FA6
Filename: 26.12.12 pommel 002.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/416023
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/416023/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/544653
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