Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum,55.3-10.2
Site: England, Kent, goudhurst
Parish: Goudhurst
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 156
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 77
Thickness (mm): 33
Weight (g): 508
Patina: Green
Surface: Pitted.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: butt 26mm; blade 77mm
Associations: 5 other, 3 recorded in all. Presented by Stringer, Stringer Esq., Gouldhurst.
Description: Strong side and stop ridges. End of butt and edge of blade slightly broken. Central rib below stop ridges.
Publications: R.F. Jessup, 'Kent', 99, 256, Pl. V, no. 15,Arch. Journ. XII, 193
Remarks: Found with five others of dimilar shape while deepening ditch, arranged in two continuous piles, 4 in each. The thin edge of one celt resting on the butt end of another.,AOK,CI