Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology Cambridge,From the late Mr. I. Deck's Collection, 1854
Site: England, cambridgeshire,swaffham fen
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Swaffham
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 150
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 63
Thickness (mm): 28
Weight (g): 370
Surface: Smooth and shiny. Slightly discoloured metal shows through nearly all over.
Other: Length: 149.5mm,Width: edge 63mm; middle 23.5mm; butt 21mm,Thickness: 28mm; 11.5mm
Description: Stop ridge and semi-elliptical ornament below the stop with median ridge running through it and down the blade.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 33. - catalogue lost,Bronzes 57. Numbers to be found in a catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology",Cambridge antiquarian Society Catalogue, 124, 1883.