Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Received 1925 in exchange from Hull Municipal Museum.,Purchased from Windsor Museum
Site: England, berks,windsor,great park,1864
Parish: Windsor
District: Windsor And Maidenhead
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1864
Length (mm): 119
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 66
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 312
Surface: Apple green much blistered by corrosion.
Other: Width: edge 66mm; middle 27mm,Thickness: 7.5mm; 23mm,Weight: 311.85 gms
Associations: One of 4 fragments (hoard) from same place + 1 specimen in B.M.
Description: Fainted trace of ornament below stop. Cast marks show. Fracture shows some impure composition. Edge has been ground but is much broken. as in companion piece analysed by Prof. Desch.
Publications: Handbook of the Museum of the Albert Institute. Says 200 yards from Bishopgate in the Park. Windsor Road.