Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2588,Roots Collection 1891
Site: England, thames?
Discovery context: river
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 166
Width (mm): 31
Edge (mm): 67
Thickness (mm): 7
Weight (g): 456
Patina: Unpatinated.
Surface: Fine condition.
Other: Site: unspecified location on Thames - geolocation not accurate to 10 kms,Width: edge 67mm; centre 31mm; butt 26mm,Thickness: 7mm, 25mm,Weight: 455.55 gms
Description: Shield with punch-marks in field on faces. On each side low flat ridge lifting to marked shoulder at origin of blade. Crescentic hammered edge.