Object: Looped palstave
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection 1927-2590
Site: England, norfolk,thetford,1888
Parish: Thetford
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1888
Length (mm): 172
Width (mm): 29
Edge (mm): 46
Thickness (mm): 13
Weight (g): 451
Patina: Brownish
Surface: Green blade, patina flaked off.
Other: Width: edge 46mm; centre 29mm; width 24mm,Thickness: centre 13mm; 29mm,Weight: 450.89 gms
Description: Very pronounced stop-ridge. 3 vertical ribs (faint on one face, marked on the other) at bottom of hafting recess. 3 vertical ribs on faces below stop-ridge.