Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Formerly M. de la Granciere, Sold at Sotheby's, 23.vii.30, Lot 20, No. 49
Site: France, brittany, morbihan, guern, fourdan, march 1898
Discovery context: auction
Country: France
Year of discovery: 1898
Length (mm): 136
Edge (mm): 36
Thickness (mm): 32
Other: Thickness: ridge 32
Associations: Hoard: see No. 43.
Description: Broken in 2 pieces since discovery: metal at fracture shows large copper-coloured crystals., Loop broken off., Narrow midrib on faces.
Publications: Bull. Soc. Polym. Morbihan, 1898, p.158: Dechelette, Manuel II, Appendix, p. 83, Hoard No. 564