The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine . teenth century, with triangular flangesat the butt-end, evidently following the lines of the war mace ofthe time—through the small, short, plain-stemmed, semi-globularheaded maces of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries,with their single fleur-de-lys cresting—to the large, long-stemmed,bowl-headed, crowned, and elaborately-crested examples of the laterseventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The County of Wilts, although it possesses only seventeen macesin all, is fortunate in having good examples of most of the steps in It
The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine . teenth century, with triangular flangesat the butt-end, evidently following the lines of the war mace ofthe time—through the small, short, plain-stemmed, semi-globularheaded maces of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries,with their single fleur-de-lys cresting—to the large, long-stemmed,bowl-headed, crowned, and elaborately-crested examples of the laterseventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The County of Wilts, although it possesses only seventeen macesin all, is fortunate in having good examples of most of the steps in Ithis curious process of evolution. The earliest are those of Wootton Bassett, which are dated are of the type of still earlier examples, and show the flanges jon the butt-end in unusual perfection—scarcely altered, indeed, ex-cept in size, from what they originally were on the weapon of war. jThe heads are semi-globular, and plain, except for a low cresting of ffleur-de-lys. Next comes the beautiful smaller mace at Wilton, dated 1639, in j. (i) MACE, WOOTTON BASSETT, 1603. (2) MACK, MALMESBURY, «V. 1645- (3) MACE, MARLBOROUGH, 1652. (4) MACE, MALMESBURY, 1703. (s) ROYAL ARMS ON HEAD OF NO. 4. SCALE, % LINEAR.
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