Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection,1927.2597
Site: England, somerset,ilminster,winterhay green,found in draining allotment
Parish: Ilminster
County: Somerset
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 102
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 50
Thickness (mm): 7
Weight (g): 272
Patina: Brown patina on one face. Spots of blue oxide on diaphragm.
Surface: Under side of blade badly pitted and pimpled.
Other: Width: edge 50mm; centre 26mm; butt broken,Thickness; centre 7mm; 34mm,Weight: 271.53 gms
Associations: See palstave No. 2596: found with gold ?torc and broken bronze bracelet.
Description: Butt end very badly damaged and edges of flanges destroyed. Blow-hole in base of diaphragm. On upper face faint trace of broad shield with depression below stop-ridge. Hammered edge.Very slight transverse ridge on sides just above stop ridge.
Publications: Evans. Anc. Br. Imps. p.90 (mentions one palstave only)