Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Bournemouth Museum,1927,Private Collection,Col. E.B. Anderson.,Woodmanton.,35 Wellington Road.,Bournemouth,Bournemouth Nat. Science Soc.
Site: England, hampshire.,bournemouth.,talbot woods,found in digging foundations of a villa, in talbot woods; between the easterly & middle railway bridge. on the north side of rly. - south of b.l blkm,1926
Parish: Bournemouth.
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1926
Length (mm): 147
Edge (mm): 53
Weight (g): 361.46
Patina: green. except near edge & butt, where it is copper colour
Surface: very pitted
Other: 3 cross section drawings of palstave on reverse.,Shield hollow? below stop.,Flanges widen slightly above stop to widest point, then taper to just below butt.,Butt rounded.,Thick midrib below shield, wider at shield then narrows towards edge, runs about 2/3's of the way to edge.,Blade widens quickly at edge bevel, edge somewhat crescent shaped, tips somewhat flared but worn.
Description: Butt & Edge dented & hammered.
Publications: Calkin 1954, 58 fig 1.3, 59 - presumably,Rowlands 1976, no. 538 Rowlands 1976, no. 555 } do they both refer to this palstave? no. 555 almost certainly does