Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge,No. 113 Murray Collection.
Site: Ireland,King's Co,Edenderry
Parish: Edenderry
County: County Offaly
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 113.5
Width (mm): middle & butt 27
Edge (mm): 33
Thickness (mm): 30.5; 6.5
Weight (g): 282
Patina: dark & light brown patina, some metal showing through.
Surface: fairly smooth
Description: High stop ridge & wings forming a shield below the stop. The butt end has originally been hammered with & flattened. The overhanging metal has been filed away in modern times for analysis.
Remarks: Catalogue says found at Edenderry. Boyne is written in ink on the implement.