Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Formerly M. de la Granciere, Sold at Sotheby's, 23rd July 1930, Lot 20, No. 43
Site: France, brittany, morbihan, guern, fourdan, march 1898, 40 mm depth
Discovery context: auction
Country: France
Year of discovery: 1898
Length (mm): 194
Edge (mm): 47
Weight (g): 40
Associations: Hoard comprising 12 palstaves, 2 dagger blades, 2 spear-heads, 2 socket hammers, 1 tanged razor, 3 bracelets and debris, 2 metres distant, 2 large pots, one containing fragments of iron
Description: High stop-ridge, edge almost straight
Publications: Bull. Soc. Polymathique du Morbihan, 1898, p. 158,  Dechelette, Manuel II - Appendix of Bronze Hoard, p. 83, No. 565