Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge,No. 112 Murray Collection.
Site: Ireland,King's Co,Edenderry
Parish: Edenderry
County: County Offaly
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 101
Width (mm): middle & butt 30
Edge (mm): 58
Thickness (mm): 5.5; 32
Weight (g): 266
Patina: dark brown
Surface: smooth
Description: High stop ridge, faint shield shaped ornament below the stop. The butt has been so much hammered with that one wing has half gone & the other almost entirely gone as it has been broken as well. The edge has been re-sharpened in modern times.