Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2579
Site: England, gloucestershire,deerhurst (near) norton or leigh,near wainlodes hill,found in the severn, 1875
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Deerhurst
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1875
Length (mm): 177
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 69
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 527
Patina: Green and brown.
Surface: Very badly pitted
Other: Width: edge 69mm; centre 27mm; butt 24mm,Thickness: 8mm; 25mm,Weight: 526.85 gms
Description: Edge and flanges badly chipped. Flanges continue to edge of blade. Midrib extends almost to edge. 2 short ribs on either side of midrib in depression below stop ridge.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 80, Fig. 62