Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England, cambridgeshire,bottisham,1869
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Bottisham
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1869
Length (mm): 170
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 71
Thickness (mm): 24
Weight (g): 500
Patina: Even black patina with one or two patches of yellowish green.
Surface: Dull and rough in places. Looks badly cast rather than corroded.
Other: Width: edge 71mm; middle 25mm; butt 26mm,Thickness: 24mm; 11.5mm
Description: Stop ridge and semi-elliptical ornament below the stop with median ridge running through it and down.