Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum,92.9-1.307
Site: England, dorset,hanford park near hod hill,1869,cat. 37
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Hanford Park
County: Dorset
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1869
Length (mm): 163
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 64
Thickness (mm): 29
Weight (g): 453
Patina: Light brown
Surface: Slightly pitted in places.
Composition: Bronze
Description: With flanges, stop ridges, and central ribs at base of blade.
Remarks: Found near R. Stone [?Stour] at base of Hod Hill, several feet deep.,Inacc.,CI