Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Bury St. Edmunds, Moyses Hall Museum,Acc. No. F.120
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Isleham,Dec. 1959
Parish: Isleham
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Grid reference: 52/635728
Year of discovery: 1959
Surface: Good, little corrosion or patina.
Associations: Isleham Hoard
Description: Fragments, solid cast. Twenty-three fragments of palstaves. Nos. 1-8 - butts; Nos. 9 & 10 - loops; Nos 12, 14-24 Blades; and No. 11 - an unfinished casting. Note: dark shading is fracture surface.