Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,1923,F. Drinkwater Esq. MRCVS,26 Victoria Drive, West Kirby,from the collection of his uncle the late Rev. C. H. Drinkwater,Vicar of St. George's Shrewsbury 1872 to 1923,Shrewsbury Museum
Site: England, shropshire,meole brace,hanwood road,se side of road about 1/2 way between hanwood and shrewsbury,in edgebold, brickfield in a pocket of grey gravel in boulder clay 4.5-5 feet deep.,about 1897 or 8.
Parish: Meole Brace
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SJ 4685 1122
Year of discovery: 1897
Length (mm): 150
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 46
Thickness (mm): 12
Weight (g): 368
Patina: Greater part crusted with patina, a shiny brown worn through to powdery blue green and in parts grey metal.
Surface: Poor. Patches of red clay. Golden bronze shows on flange on other side.
Composition: Cu 86.9; Sn 12.7
Other: Width: edge 46mm; middle 25mm; butt 23mm,Thickness: 12mm; 34mm,Weight: 368.15 gms
Associations: 1a. Hoard: Found with another Palstave and a Chisel.
Description: Loop broken. Finished off by hammering, but not so much as the other one.
Publications: Salop. S&M, no. 122.
Remarks: SI; CI; AFI