Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Carisbrooke Museum. 9. I.
Site: England, (isle of wight).,ryde.,st. john's park.,found in laying the foundation of leavington house.,1858.
Discovery context: building work 
Parish: Ryde
County: Isle of Wight
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1858
Length (mm): 163
Edge (mm): 63
Weight (g): 343
Other: 3 cross section drawings of palstave on reverse.,Loop is intact, centred over stop, wider on front (blade side) loop.,Side ridges, uneven, running a bit more and a bit less than halfway down face of blade.,Midrib running a bit less than halfway down face of blade, tapers to a rough point.,Object rough all over, corroded or cast flaws?,Edge chipped and damaged.
Associations: It is part of a hoard of 12; the present abode of three of these is uncertain.
Description: Badly made, with thin loop and with ridge of metal along the sides that had escaped from the mould. It has a new look, as though it had never been used.
Publications: Lockhart C., Guide to the Isle of Wight (1870) p.36.,Wilkins Dr., History of the Isle of Wight (1859) p.52.
Remarks: This may be the one mentioned in Dr. Wilkins' list of gifts to Newport Museum, described as "a celt from Harlech in Wales, presented by Mr. George Hillier". It has been labled "Locality unknown". It now seems clear that it is one of the St. John's hoard.