Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sir Arthur Evans' Collection
Site: England, oxfordshire,cowley,leopold street, cowley road,1882
Hoard: yes
Parish: Cowley
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1882
Length (mm): 178
Edge (mm): 68
Thickness (mm): 28
Weight (g): 473
Patina: Blue and green patinas, badly oxidised on blade.
Other: Weight: 417.31 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard of nine palstaves and one socketed celt.
Description: Three flat prominent ridges on blade, as in the case of others from this site and those from Burgesses Meadow, Oxford. All from same mould. Excrescence on side.
Remarks: Labelled by Sir John Evans: "With 9 others and a socket celt"; Cowley Road, Oxford, 1882; C.J. Regan, Esq."