Object: Palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Somerset County Museum, Taunton
Site: England, somerset,old cleeve,found at hayne (? higher or lower) close to the w. side of wat somerset (mineral) railway, now deceased, about 1/4 mile n. of leighland, and 1 mile s. of roadwater. o/s/ ^" som. xlvii, s-e
Parish: Old Cleeve
County: Somerset
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 160
Edge (mm): 64
Thickness (mm): 27
Weight (g): 432
Other: Weight: 432.3 gms
Associations: Said to have been found close together with 1 flat axe, 1 palstave, and 1 broken socketed axe.
Description: Straignt from mould; "fin" or jet along edges. Edge-blunt, Butt broken.
Publications: Proc. Som. Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc. LXVII (1931), 136, 137.