Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum,55.3-10.1
Site: England, Kent, goudhurst,49
Parish: Goudhurst
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 159
Width (mm): 23
Edge (mm): 70
Thickness (mm): 26
Weight (g): 402
Patina: Green
Surface: Slightly rough and corroded.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: butt 23mm; blade 70mm
Associations: 5 others, 3 only recorded in all.
Description: Slight side and stop ridges. End of butt broken. Trident rib on each face below stop ridges.
Publications: R.F. Jessup, 'Kent", 99, 256.,Arch. Journ. XII, 193
Remarks: Presented by Stringer, Stringer Esq. Found with 5 others: see note on 55.3-10.2,Inacc.,CI