Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,1836. p. 122, no. 4.,Borlase Collection,Given by W.J. Boilase, 1770
Site: wales,montgomeryshire,darowen,moel-yr-henlys
County: Montgomeryshire
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 163
Edge (mm): 64
Thickness (mm): 25
Weight (g): 349
Other: Width: edge 64mm,Weight: 348.55 gms
Associations: Found with 7 or 8 others during quarrying in the hillside (Gough's Camden, 1685)
Description: Slight rib down upper half of blade. Mottled green surface, somewhat pitted and rough, condition otherwise good.
Publications: Gibson's Camden, "Magna Britannia", pl 20; fig. 13.,Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments. County of Montgomery, p. 34, No. 172.