Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hampshire Co. Mus. service,ex-Zillwood, Mr. M.A. - private (no. 5)
Site: England, hampshire,minstead,clay hill
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Minstead
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 287 118
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 147
Width (mm): 25
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 384
Surface: Grass green patina intact over much of one face, mostly flaked elsewhere to dull green dry sur. with lumpy light blue-green dusty corr.
Associations: 7a. Area Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 146.5mm; EWbt 24.6mm; maxEBfg. 27.4mm; minBst 22.8mm; Tsep 7.5mm; Wt. 384.2 gms,Typology: central rib on bl. faces; triang. flanking hollows at top; one stop markedly dipped in centre - not dam. - cg. flaw? possibly was some flattening of narrow fg. crests; rounded bump high across one sep.; this flat undercut end floored with bowed end; rev. sep. with more rounded floor and 2 short ribs in bowed end.,Manufacture: traces of cg. ft. as rounded rib or compromised ridge; rev. fl. little off-centre to left; few prob. moulding dimples on sides; depression between deep stumps - cg. flaw? faint hmks near edge - but no defined bevel.,Condition: Large bl. corner lost - prob. anc. and corr. dam; rest of e. irreg. from corr. chipping; butt end broken? and corr. dam.; chips in fg. crests - some poss anc., but also corr.; loop presumably broken in ant - one stump rubbed to dull copper; corners of rev. stop crest dam. by corr.; much of rev. dec. lost.,Attached Material: light yellowy fawn soil in pockets; remains of the casting of darker rich brown matrix
Remarks: PIF, AFI; S; SI; CI; SN Jan 79; Source So.A; Sub. Inf. Zillwood, Sept. 78