Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge,Bought Gathercole 1906
Site: England, suffolk,lakenheath
Parish: Lakenheath
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 145
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 47
Thickness (mm): 34
Weight (g): 447
Patina: Resembles that of some socketed celts in this collection from Lakenheath.
Surface: Half rough, half smooth. Where smooth dark brown and metal showing. Where rough emerald green - it is more like a fine powdering.
Other: Width: edge 47mm; middle 24mm; butt 26mm,Thickness: 34mm; 16mm
Description: High stop ridge. Above the stop between the wings are 2 ridges parallel with the wings. Below the stop are three ridges as an ornament running towards blade.
Publications: Annual Records Catalogue 185. 1906. A 1906-71,Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue 1906