This image is printed in the RCHME Inventory volume, Dorset IV - North. A print of this image is in the RCHME Inventory Notes for Shaftesbury. The civic mace is engraved with the arms of Shaftesbury Abbey, per fess France and England and a lion rampant beside a tree, in chief a bird.
This is part of the Sub-Series: RCH01/097/03 Rchme Inventory Of Dorset, Volume Iv, North: Glass Plate Negatives; within the Series: RCH01/097 Rchme Inventory Of Dorset, Volume Iv, North; within the Sub-Collection: RCH01/01 Rchme Inventory Volumes; within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England (Rchme) Archive
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