Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge,No. 114 Murray Collection.
Site: Ireland,King's Co,Edenderry
Parish: Edenderry
County: County Offaly
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 156
Width (mm): middle 27.5; butt 26
Edge (mm): 70
Thickness (mm): 38; 9.5
Weight (g): 515
Patina: very dark brown & green. some dust colour in the corners, & some metal showing through.
Surface: smooth
Description: High stop ridge & shield shaped ornament below the stop. Expanding blade. Base broken, wings diamond shaped.