Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection,1927.2586
Site: England, Kent, reculver, near,1884
Parish: Richborough
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1884
Length (mm): 163
Width (mm): 23
Edge (mm): 63
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 335
Patina: Black-green patina, rather glossy.
Other: Width; edge 63mm; centre 23mm; butt 19mm,Thickness: centre 9mm; 24mm
Description: V-shaped depression below stop-ridge. Patina entirely flaked off one face of blade, partially off edge of other face and off one side except butt.
Publications: R.F. Jessup, 'Kent', 261