Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Borough of Newbury Museum,Purchased from the Brooke Collection,1916
Site: England, hampshire,silchester,aug. 1895
Parish: Silchester
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1895
Length (mm): 123
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 59
Thickness (mm): 15
Weight (g): 802
Other: Width: edge 59mm; centre 21mm; butt 17mm,Thickness: centre 15mm; 5mm
Description: Ridge from mould along both sides and edge. Butt broken. Lead coloured surface.,Said to be "argentan".
Remarks: If this was found, as is supposed, in the Roman city, it is probably a cast taken in Roman times from a Bronze Age Palstave.