A cast copper alloy terminal or head from a staff of later early medieval or Norman date (AD 1000 -1200). The staff terminal is broadly sub-spherical in plan and profile being cast as a single piece. From the base of the lower half of the staff head a cylindrical / tubular socket extends. The head of the staff is decorated with a cast pierced pattern creating a lattice like openwork ornamented with projecting knop like bosses. The way the decoration is arranged suggests that each side of the sphere is decorated with an openwork vertical cross contained within a circular frame - this frame then appears when viewed from a side as a saltire shaped cross. At the centre of each vertical cross is an ornate boss formed of four pellets surmounted by a single projecting knop. The arms and enclosing circles are then decorated with similar smaller bosses all evenly spaced.
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