Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,Guermonprez Museum,Bognor,No. 27
Site: England, sussex,bognor,marshall estate,1927
Parish: Bognor Regis
County: East Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1927
Length (mm): 137
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 50
Weight (g): 340
Surface: Much corrosion on one edge. No clay.
Other: Width: 50mm; ridge 20mm,Weight: 340.19 gms
Associations: Hoard (See No. 1).
Description: Cavity below 3 short ribs on one face of septum above stop-ridge. Central and converging ribs forming upper part of trident on face shown; no central ridge below. Edge C-D sharp and very smooth surfaced. Mottled "planishing" obliterates casting ridge on side.
Publications: Sussex Arch. Coll. LXVI, 225-231.