Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London, Tower Armoury,Tr. 104
Site: England, suffolk,bramfield,near castle yard
Parish: Bramfield
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Grid reference: TM 4030 7339
Year of discovery: 1839
Length (mm): 137
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 51
Thickness (mm): 11
Weight (g): 306
Surface: Mottled dull brown and rather silvery gold; localised green mainly in pocks
Description: Dimensions: L 137mm; We 50.5mm; Wst 21mm; Wbt 19.5mm; Bst 28.5mm; max T sep 11mm; max A fg 7.3mm; B fg 24mm; wt. 306.1 gms,Typology: inside shield long rib expands as broad low 'trumpet' moulding; stops very pronounced and bowed in plan; sep. floor near flat; side bars not very crisp,Manufacture: hammer rippling all over blade faces and sides; cg. fl. evident but well reduced; butt top was very neatly squared; good edge bevel; notch in one fg. is likely casting defect.,Condition: edge ragged from corrosion and subsequent wear?
Publications: See context card.
Remarks: Circumstances: Found in March 1839.,Labels/Markings: white ink: Cx2/363; adhesive large rect. sepia label: 104