Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ludlow Museum,Given by the Earl of Powis,22 January 1863
Site: wales,montgomeryshire,welshpool,near an ancient camp between crowther coppice and pool quay,august or october 1862,"guilsfield hoard"
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: 1862
Length (mm): 103
Width (mm): 23
Edge (mm): 44
Thickness (mm): 32
Weight (g): 291
Patina: Green patina of various shades.
Other: Width: edge 44mm; centre 23mm,Thickness: centre 32mm; 13mm,Weight: 290.58 gms.
Associations: Found with spear-head and ferule and scabbard-end. Part of a founders hoard consisting of: 4 spear-heads, 6 broken spear-heads, 12 ferrules, 8 celts, 2 googes, 5 swords, 16 scabbards, 1 jet and over 50 pieces.
Description: Broken just above centre, butt missing. One loop.
Publications: The hoard or parts of it are described: Archaeologia Cambrenies, 3rd Ser., X.212-221,Collections Historical and Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire.iii. 436-445.,Proc. Soc. Antiq. Lond. 2nd Ser., ii, 249.,Evans, Ancient Bronze Implements, 87, 114, 174, 285, 302, 315, 336, 339, 424, 467