It was made either entirely of metal or had a metal head, and was often spiked. For a time during their history, maces were both functional and symbolic, both lethal and ceremonial, but gradually ...

I believe it is a ceremonial mace. It belonged to my great-grandfather William Henry Massey, who was born in 1885 at Gautby, near Horncastle. I think it is from the Order of the Foresters in ...

So what is the Mace exactly? The ceremonial Mace is a highly ornamented staff of metal, wood or other materials, carried by a Mace-bearer or placed before a sovereign or other high officials in ...

It's taken more than 115 years but Fenton is finally set to get a ceremonial mace. And it comes as Stoke-on-Trent enters its centenary year as a city. As part of the planned celebrations talented ...

Dalhousie's New Dawn Staff of Place and Belonging was first introduced into use at Convocation in the Spring of 2019, replacing the University Mace as the ceremonial object used to open and close each ...