Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2594,(Edkins Collection, 1891)
Site: England, somerset,bristol,bath street,bristol bridge,1874
Parish: Bristol
County: Somerset
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1874
Length (mm): 151
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 68
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 423
Patina: Glossy patina, fine rather dark green, worn off on sides and on one face.
Other: Width: edge 68mm; centre 27mm; butt 24mm,Thickness: centre 9mm; 28mm,Weight: 423.30 gms
Description: Curved stop-ridge. Strong midrib. Recurved edge.
Publications: Trans. Bristol and Gloucs. Arch. Soc. xxvii.329, pl. II, fig. 1.