Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum
Site: England, essex,shoeburyness,9.11.1907
Parish: Shoeburyness
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1907
Length (mm): 150
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 56
Thickness (mm): 7
Weight (g): 322
Patina: Traces of light green patina, especially on each side of septum.
Surface: Fairly smooth. But heavily pitted all over. Chiefly golden bronze colour. A little clay here and there.
Other: Width: edge 56mm; butt 21mm; middle 24mm,Thickness: 6.5mm; 8.5mm; 21.5mm,Weight: 322.47 gms