Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Hereford Museum and Art Gallery,Acc. No. 6743/3,Donor: Mr. R.A. Smith,Netherwood Manor,Tenbury Wells, Worcs.
Site: herefordshire,thornbury,netherwood,this provenance is extremely dubious.
Parish: Netherwood
County: Herefordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Patina: Brown; pitted. Lustrous in small patches.
Other: Length: 011.8 (?),Width: 04.6 max (?),Thickness: 03.1 max (?)
Associations: With 6743/1, /2, /4,2 Flanges axes, side looped spearhead.
Description: Casting joints have been hammered down; as have flanges. The stops appear to have been hammered back. Depressions forward of these and slight loop ridge on one surface. Flanges chipped.
Publications: Trans. Woolhope Naturalist Field Club, 1947, pp. xlv-xlix and photograph. (L.F. Chitty).