Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: University Museum, Aberystwyth,Now National Museum Wales,47.164/177
Site: wales,ceredigion (formerly cardiganshire),aberystwyth,found on pendinas hill
Parish: Aberystwyth
County: Aberystwyth
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 122
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 38
Thickness (mm): 20
Weight (g): 192
Patina: Heavily patinated.
Surface: Badly corroded and pitted. Well developed stop-ridge, low flanges.
Other: Width: edge 38mm; ridge 20mm; butt 16mm,Thickness: at ridge 20mm,Weight: 191.7 gms
Description: A large fragment missing from blade. No ornament.
Publications: ? identified with,Sir S.R. Mayrieb's History of Cardigan (1810), Plate XX, pp. 418, 421 (figure inaccurate, there is no ornamentation on the actual blade),Arch. Camb. 1856, p.124; 1874, p.13,Evans, Anc. Br. Imps. p 79,Skelton's Illustrations of Goodrich Court Armoury, I. pl. 47, 1.