Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
Site: France, brittany, cotes-du-nord (current cotes d'armor), commune de calorguen (near dinan), grand bois, le desert, 1863
Country: France
Year of discovery: 1863
Length (mm): 135
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 36
Thickness (mm): 6
Surface: somewhat broken and rather roughly made
Other: Date of find recorded as both 1866 and 1863.,  Length: 134.5,  Width: edge 36; middle 24.5; butt 23,  Thickness 6, 26
Associations: Label: "Part of find Commune de Colorguen. About 80 found in 1866, near Dinan. Part of a hoard of 160 palstaves according to some authorities 360 axes of various sizes."
Publications: Dechelette; Manuel d'Archeologie, ii, App i, No 116,p. 25, Chantre, E., Age du Bronze III 26, Mem Soc. Arch d'Ille-et-Vilains (II.XI.65), p. 49, de Mortillet, G., Cachettes de l'Age du Bronze en France, BSA, 1894, p. 305, DAG I 220, Andre, A. Catalogue Musee Rennes, 1876, pp. 81-99, Tresor Archeologique, pl. XVI, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7