Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,Foster Bequest No. 20 (No. 22 is correct in catalogue),Prehistoric Bronzes No. 44 (Cat is lost)
Site: England, norfolk,southery,1889
Parish: Southery
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1889
Length (mm): 141
Width (mm): 35
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 12
Weight (g): 322
Patina: Turquoise blue and green - metal showing through.
Surface: Exceedingly uneven and corroded in deep pits.
Other: Width: edge 43mm; at loop 34.5mm,Thickness: 12mm; 30mm
Associations: Labelled: "Axe found near a (human) skeleton in ploughing a field near Southery, Norfolk, belonging to Mr. William Smith, a similar one now in possession of Mr. William Whitehead of Yaxley was found in the same field under the same circumstances some few years since." Geo. Daintree Chatteris Jany 1889
Description: Ornament rather indistinct - more distinct on one face than on the other.