Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Society of Antiquities Collection, B.14,(Presented by Richard Brooke Esq. F.S.A, 15th April 1858)
Site: England, northamptonshire
County: Northamptonshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 156
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 64
Thickness (mm): 7
Surface: Fine olive green patina; little flaking at edges etc. to dry brown surface; off pocks/lumps brighter green
Associations: 9. Unknown
Description: Dimensions: L 156.3mm; We 64mm; Wbt 20.3mm; Bst 29mm; Blp 5.8mm; maxTsep 7.4mm; Tbt 2.2mm,Typology: round-pointed flange crests; underside of stop rounded with tendency to bev.; very prominent central rib, lesser flanking ribs; side flanges on blade below stop - merging out but leaving dished lower faces; angles and end of sep. not crisp - rounded,Manufacture: Hollow in one side prob. cg. flow; remains of cg. fl. on upper sides - parts broad with lipped edges; fully [removed?] on blade sides with creation of bevel and hammer rippling; hmks also on blade face and edge bev.,Condition: edge mainly jagged - largely ancient damage probably; butt top slightly worn broken surface probably in manufacture,Attached material: hints of orangey-fawn dust in parts
Publications: a) Minutes of Soc. of Ant. London, Vol XLII (1856-1862) - 15 April 1858, p. 135
Remarks: Circumstances: "Richard Brooke, Esq. FSA, exhibited and presented to the Society's Museum a bronze celt found some time since in Northamptonshire." (a),Labels/Markings: Loose hand-painted label: "Looped palstave found in Northants. Given by R. Brooke Esq. F.S.A. 1858."; white ink inscr: 'B.14"