The mace is made from gold-plated silver, and was presented to the council in 1912.

A mace typically consists of a strong, heavy, wooden or metal shaft, often reinforced with metal, featuring a head made of stone, copper, bronze, iron, or steel.

With the advent of copper mace heads, they no longer shattered and a better fit could be made to the wooden club by giving the eye of the mace head the shape of a cone and using a tapered handle.

Unique types of maces known as " Gada " were used extensively in ancient Indian warfare, and the enchanted talking mace Sharur made its first appearance in Sumerian / Akkadian mythology during the epic of Ninurta.

The ceremonial mace is a short, richly ornamented staff often made of silver, the upper part of which is furnished with a knob or other head-piece and decorated with a coat of arms.

There is no fixed recipe, but it is usually made using stale ( usually left-over ) bread, and some combination of ingredients like milk, egg, suet, sugar or syrup, dried fruit, and spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, mace or vanilla.

He made the mace for the House of Commons in 1649.

A mace of an unusual form is that of the Tower Ward of London, which has a head resembling the White Tower in the Tower of London, and which was made in the reign of Charles II.

The silver mace with crystal globe of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, at Holyrood Palace, was made about 1690 by Francis Garthorne.

The mace took 300 hours to craft and is made from gold, silver and brass.

The mace of the Open University reflects its modernist outlook, being made from titanium.

* Gurj: a flanged or spiked mace made out of steel.

A buckler ( French bouclier ' shield ', from Old French bocle, boucle ' boss ') is a small shield, 15 to 45 cm ( 6 in to 18 in ) in diameter, gripped in the fist ; it was generally used as a companion weapon in hand-to-hand combat during the Medieval and Renaissance, as its size made it poor protection against missile weapons ( e. g., arrows ) but useful in deflecting the blow of an opponent's sword or mace.

The military mace is a more sophisticated descendant of the club, typically made of metal and featuring a spiked, knobbed or flanged head attached to a haft.

Jagdwurst ( which means hunting sausage ) is a German cooked sausage made of lean beef and pork, as well as belly of pork, salt, pepper, garlic, mustard seed, capsicum, mace, cardamom and water, which makes the sausage juicy.

The idol is made of a stone called " Patala Anjanam " or black bismuth and is in the standing pose with 4 arms carrying the shanku ( conch ), the chakra ( discus ), the gada ( mace ) and padma ( lotus ).

As it is traditionally made of stock left over from the making of sausages like liverwurst, boiled with flour ( and sometimes blood, which turns the color from white to black ) and bacon and mainly other various cuts of the animal like liver, kidney and lungs, all of which are cooked, ground, then cooked again with flour or oatmeal and a special spice mix (" rommelkruid ") consisting of liquorice, sugar, anis, cinnamon, clove, white pepper, mace, ginger powder and sandalwood, and finally poured into a bowl and cooled off to achieve the form of a loaf. Products for the broad consumer market are specially made of a planned portion of the slaughtered swine ( blood, fat, minor muscle meat and sometimes intestines like liver or stomach.

In a rare tradition which is today a distinction, Judges of the Madras High Court are still led by orderlies who bear a ceremonial mace made of silver.

In reply to this statement, King Ashama made a line on the sand with his mace and said, " By God, Jesus is not more than what you have described him.

He had a mace made for him with a head like that of an ox, and with his brothers and followers, went forth to fight against Zahhāk.

That he enjoyed warfare there can be no doubt ; yet he was not like the ordinary fighting bishops of the Middle Ages, whose sole indication of their religious role was to avoid the shedding of blood by using a mace in battle instead of a sword.

Banda was the world's only source of nutmeg and mace, spices used as flavourings, medicines, preserving agents, that were at the time highly valued in European markets ; sold by Arab traders to the Venetians for exorbitant prices.

This advice is relayed to Ninurta by way of Sharur, his enchanted talking mace, which had been sent by Ninurta to the realm of the gods to seek counsel from Enlil directly.

* Sharur ( mystical mace wielded by Ninurta )

Part of the ritual of the Council's proceedings is that the mace is carried by the Council Officer when leading the Lord Provost into the Council Chamber to chair full council meetings.

In the US, a Drum Major carrying a large baton or mace will often salute by bringing the right hand, holding the mace with the head upward, to the left shoulder.

Other ceremonies sometimes associated with the Westminster system include an annual Speech from the Throne ( or equivalent ) in which the Head of State gives a special address ( written by the government ) to parliament about what kind of policies to expect in the coming year, and lengthy State Opening of Parliament ceremonies that often involve the presentation of a large ceremonial mace.

The mace was developed during the Upper Paleolithic from the simple club, by adding sharp spikes of flint or obsidian.

Shestopyor-type mace used by the rotmistrz s of the private army of the Radziwiłł family.

These maces were also used by Moldavian king Stephen the Great who used the mace in some of his wars ( see Bulawa ).

A shield is a type of personal armor, meant to intercept attacks, either by stopping projectiles such as arrows or redirecting a hit from a sword, mace or battle axe to the side of the shield-bearer.

The vegetation of the small and narrow islands, encompassed by the sea, is very luxuriant ; including rainforests, sago, rice and the famous spices-nutmeg, cloves and mace, among others.

Nutmegs are the most plentiful crop, followed by an array of such spices as cocoa, mace, cloves, vanilla, cinnamon and ginger.

She is typically depicted wearing a horned head-dress and tiered skirt, often with bow cases at her shoulders, and not infrequently carries a mace or baton surmounted by an omega motif or a derivation, sometimes accompanied by a lion cub on a leash.

The most infamous of these is a quest given by the Daedric Prince Boethiah where the Dragonborn must sacrifice one of his or her followers in order to progress further into the quest and the Daedric Prince Molag Bol requires the player to sacrifice a corrupt priest by murdering him with a rusted mace once he is caught in one of Molag Bol's traps.

Standard iconography pictured Nergal as a lion, and boundary-stone monuments symbolise him with a mace surmounted by the head of a lion.

Yet, he was felled by Morgoth's mace, Grond, and crushed beneath Morgoth's foot.

The runner stone is supported by a cross-shaped metal piece ( rind or rynd ) fixed to a " mace head " topping the main shaft or spindle leading to the driving mechanism of the mill ( wind, water ( including tide ) or other means ).

In the 15th century, King Matthias Corvinus and his Neopolitan wife Beatrice, influenced by Renaissance culture, introduced new ingredients and spices like garlic, ginger, mace, saffron and nutmeg, onion and the use of fruits in stuffings or cooked with meat.

Degrees are awarded by Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury | The Marquess of Salisbury in front of the ceremonial mace and in the presence of the Vice-Chancellor, Deans, academic faculty, graduants and their families.

In a May 24, 1976 Time magazine interview it was revealed that Brando " changed the entire flavor of his character — a bounty hunter called Robert E. Lee Clayton — by inventing a deadly hand weapon resembling both a harpoon and a mace that he uses to kill.